Discovering Lawrence and Faulkner in Highfield, Harare
I was exposed to D.H. Lawrence in Highfield, Harare, as my first setbook for A-Level. My US-educated teacher described Lawrence as "a bore", preferred William Faulkner instead, and later, after re-reading The Sound and Fury and discovering more of Quentin Compson in Absalom, Absalom , I would discover why. My teacher's attitude made me curious about Lawrence, so I went on to enjoy the "boring" [The] Lost Girl , temporarily despised The Sound and the Fury , which took me longer to master because, first the flavour of American English was new to me. I was trying still struggling with accepting "color" as a correct spelling of 'colour', and the Southern verisimilitude Faulkner presented in his characters' dialogue did not help matters either. I fell in love with the works of Lawrence, made this known to my teacher, read more of his works, including his moral and love philosophy, anything I could find at the British Council Library on those Sa...