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FAULKNER: A BIOGRAPHY by JOSEPH BLOTNER 2,115 pages. 2 vols. Random House...
Faulkner breathed his last in July 1962. He had found no one to protect him from the ensuing scramble for his literary remains. Family cooperation and the right of access to private papers soon went to English Professor Joseph Blotner, a younger man whom Faulkner had befriended during his last years as a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. Blotner spent the next twelve years of his life studying Faulkner-with weighty and almost entirely lamentable results...
...book is a monstrosity: flaccid, mawkish, stuffed with the wrong kind of speculation and unnecessary detail. (Blotner notes not once but twice that Faulkner had "shapely" feet.) How can even the most fact-crazed scholar need to know the names of the Little League players whom Faulkner occasionally watched in Charlottesville...
...greatest American writer of this century was supremely indifferent to the fanciful legends his name collected. As Critic Malcolm Cowley noted in 1947 in The Portable Faulkner, an anthology of the author's work: "Most of the biographical sketches that deal with him are full of preposterous errors." Blotner's years of research, therefore, were spent in a noble cause. How, then, did things go so wrong? The author's foreword offers a clue to his-and much of modern biography's-ruling flaw. He has written, says Blotner, a biography of the works as well...
...doctors appointed to the division are Clement Yahia, Raymond Reilly, Theodore C. Baron, Robert Shirley, Kenneth Blotner and John M. Leventhal. All are on staff at the Boston Hospital for Women, Lying-In Division...