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...Faulkner & the South...
...compliments on your thorough, incisive cover story on William Faulkner [July 17] and his works. As co-editor of a recent book on Faulkner (Bear, Man, and God: Seven Approaches to William Faulkner's "The Bear," I am familiar with most of the extant Faulkner commentary, and have found yours among the most penetrating...
...suggest that Horace Judson relinquish his job with TIME to take a professorship in English, teaching the honors program. His keen insight as a critic of Faulkner resulted in one of the best estimates of that writer I've ever read. It is a masterpiece...
...immediacy that both Faulkner and the race problem have for Southerners constrains us from reading Faulkner as a polemic for the 1964 "civil rights" bill. Indeed, you have read into Faulkner a conclusion that a thorough study does not warrant. I find in Faulkner a neurotic impasse between the direction of conscience and intellect, versus the guidance of sentiment, tradition, and the uncommon similarity of experience Southerners live with...
...Admittedly William Faulkner had much to say about the racial issue and did much to clarify the historical and psychological patterns that motivate racist activity in the South. However, it is a gross mistake to leave the impression that his fame rests on this fact. A thousand years from now, when other issues dominate the mass media of the day, William Faulkner will still be recognized (along with Shakespeare, Milton and others) as a giant among literary artists. William Faulkner used the myth of the South to embody universal answers to universal questions-not to explain the racial situation...