Word: bayard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson, Bayard, and his playmate, a negro boy, gradually progress from childhood into manhood, always under her influence and as-similating her valiant spirit and indomitable will. Ringo, the negro, is recognized almost on a level with Bayard, and in many ways he appears to be his superior. It is he on whom Granny Sarforis leans for support in the crucial moments. He is always in her confidence in her plots, while Bayard seems to act on his orders without knowing...
...story is told in the person of Bayard. As the scene opens, he is a boy of twelve, and the style is juvenile. As the novel progresses, the style becomes more mature, and the final result is the rich and colorful prose characteristic of Faulkner's previous works. This book should take its place as a worthy successor to Absalom, Absalom...
...this oar. The bow seat is wide open with at least six possibilities of almost equal ability. This is easily the most uncertain position in the boat. Dick Ninde probably leads here if anyone does but he is closely pursued by Dave Scull, Henry Locke and Sophomore Bayard Dillingham. Perhaps less likely are John Rowe and John Bremer also of last season's Freshmen...
...little closer together. A lively book in its own right, made up of seven tales of the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished is also interesting for the light it throws on obscure episodes and characters in Faulkner's other novels. Because the stories are told by Bayard Sartoris, they close one of the gaps in the chronicle of Sartoris' family who, along with the Compsons, the Sutpens, the Coldfields, and their slaves, overseers and illegitimate children, make up much of Jefferson's past and present population. The stories are full of action and there...
Between its lines readers get a clear picture of the moral and cultural changes in the South in the ten years that the book covers, the questioning of old customs by little Confederates like Bayard, the persistence of old Southern conventions in situations that make them absurd. Thus, although Cousin Drusilla and John Sartoris have gone to war together, lived in military encampments, rebuilt the plantation, fought carpetbaggers, they cannot hold out against the good ladies of Jefferson. In the midst of domestic disorder, while Sartoris is killing two Republicans and holding an election at gun's point...