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...judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...
...such a big deal and a conclusion that portrays literature as a heroic struggle for the future of the human race. None of this is very original, and in this case it does not gel together very well. Past Nobel Lectures like Saramago's, Garcia Marquez's and Faulkner's have done many of these things better and more coherently. But originality and style are minor points. It's the message that bothers me, commonplace...
James R. Allison '99, who also took Marius's seminar on Twain and Faulkner, said he credits the development of his writing to Marius...
Andrew L. Zwick '00, who took Marius's freshman seminar on Mark Twain and William Faulkner, said Marius's summers in France figured in the stories he often told in class...
...already written Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, but in 1948, when WILLIAM FAULKNER submitted a short story to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, steely editors at both publications rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards, will finally unveil "Lucas Beauchamp." The Review, published by the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was a writer-in-residence, inherited the story from the Rev. Patrick Samway, a former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year...