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LITERATURE: A LATIN FAULKNER...
...from a country with a modest literary tradition. The journalist and fiction writer has produced a series of enduring and popular works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975). In them, García Márquez, a great admirer of William Faulkner, has created a kind of tropical Yoknapatawpha County, where "the silence was more ancient, and things were hard to see in the decrepit light." There, jungle folklore blends with Roman Catholicism, humor collides with myth, miracles kick up the dust of the commonplace. The actual and the surreal are like...
...society. "This week, 14 years, 14 books and many prestigious literary awards later, TIME once again has chosen Updike as its cover subject. Only four other novelists have appeared twice on TIME'S covers: Sinclair Lewis (1927, 1945), James Joyce (1934,1939), Ernest Hemingway (1937, 1954) and William Faulkner...
...much as likes publicity, we found out something charming and unexpected about him. He is a baseball fan, and like many baseball fans he loves to reflect upon records. Now he could tie one: 'Novelists with most appearances on TIME'S cover (two): Lewis, Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner, Updike...
...Philistinism or the no-nonsense approach of youthful capitalism. They might, like Melville, produce superb work and still decline into seedy obscurity. But the only one trying to keep them from writing was the wolf at the door. Even during the early decades of this century, a young William Faulkner could learn his trade unheralded and in peace...