How (and why) to read William Faulkner - Sascha Morrell
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William Faulkner is considered one of America’s most remarkable and perplexing writers. He confused his audience intentionally, using complex sentences, unreliable narrators, and outlandish imagery. His body of work is shocking, inventive, hilarious, and challenging. So how can readers navigate his literary labyrinths? Sascha Morrell explains how to read one of literature's most confusing writers.
Are Faulkner’s characters’ obsession with the past likely to enhance or impede our understanding of the events and situations they depict?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Sascha Morrell
- Director Sarah Saidan, Naghmeh Farzaneh
- Narrator Christina Greer
- Storyboard Artist Sarah Saidan
- Animator Naghmeh Farzaneh
- Compositor Rafaël Massé
- Art Director Naghmeh Farzaneh, Sarah Saidan
- Composer Adam Larison
- Sound Designer Sarah Saidan
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Produced by Abdallah Ewis, Anna Bechtol
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Script Editor Iseult Gillespie
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
