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Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...
...must be added, history in the ordinary sense. "Nate Shaw" is a pseudonym, as are almost all the proper names in the book. The privacy of relatives and survivors (Shaw died in 1973) remains intact. Tukabahchee County, Ala., is as fictive as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha -and, where it really matters, as real. For Nate Shaw was a formidable bearer of memories. Illiterate, denied even the semblance of an education, he had nowhere to file the details of his life but in his head. Once dropped, the baggage of the past is lost forever. So Shaw held on to everything...
That was not Nate's way. Faulkner's celebrated epitaph for all the blacks in The Sound and the Fury was "They endured." Nate Shaw did more than that...
...Well, it's not different from what I think Faulkner was talking about if we can understand what he meant. Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech is not really very intelligible to people now. At the time he made it the newspapers loved it because it had this language of sentiment and antiquity. I would think the Slocum is dealing very strongly in the same way that Faulkner's characters were. But I would not like to measure Something Happened against Faulkner's statement, in Faulkner's terms. You see, Faulkner is speaking romantically; we no longer speak romantically. We know...
...when Faulkner said at the end of his Noble Prize speech that man would endure I don't think anybody today would take him seriously. Of course not writers, which isn't saying that it doesn't bother me. But I think it was poetic expression