Word: faulknerisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by creating a kind of Yoknapatawpha, Conn. The fact that there are no Snopeses and not even very much crab grass in the commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The end of a dark, tangled trilogy (the other novels: The Hamlet, The Town...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The end of a dark, tangled trilogy (the other novels:The Hamlet, The Town...
That's the first prerequisite. The second involves not letting the name William Faulkner cross your mind during the show, for it will only evoke sympathy for Mr. Faulkner and antipathy for Jerry Wald, of Peyton Place fame, who lovingly identified Faulkner with his film, but who cunningly ripped up The Hamlet into many pieces, tossed them into the air, and caught mostly his own chaff...
This is a good bed-time story, unless you have something more worthwhile to do, such as reading William Faulkner...