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...identity crisis. Not far from the Berkeley campus, a favorite hangout is a beer joint called Steppenwolf, so named by its original owner (Max Scherr) because that novel symbolizes the loneliness of the intellectual. At Harvard, where Hesse's books sell better than any of his contemporaries except Faulkner, Senior Joel Kramer says: "Reading him is a gut, emotional experience." Adds Harvard Graduate Student Mark Granovetter: "Well, he was the first hippie, wasn...
Fullback Bob Gray, who suffered a hard collision in Wednesday's game with Wesleyan, appears not to have sustained any serious head injury and has, according to coach Bruce Munro, "only a real bad headache." Gray will remain in Faulkner Hospital another day for observation before being moved to the Stillman Infirmary. He may be ready for action by next week...
Early this evening he was transferred to the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plains. The latest medical word was that he was reacting normally to tests and would be kept in the hospital several days for observation...
Doing Nothing. The style of many regionalist writers generates inward pressures that condense the atmosphere of a time and place - for example, the palpable Dixie gothic of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Guimarāes Rosa's style is centrifugal. Shooting out to ignite the familiar details of the author's vigorous humanism, it transcends particulars and turns events into allegory. In The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest...
Cormac McCarthy is one of those few writers who go on from a well-remarked first novel to write a superior second book. His first. The Orchard Keeper, won him the William Faulkner Foundation Award for 1965, a traveling scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. His new work shows that the 35-year-old author from the backwoods of Tennessee, while still echoing the style of Faulkner, has developed into an exceptional talent...