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...dissolute life of his sister Caddy, that the ideal past never existed not ever could again. In his inability to face the world in its frightening reality, Quentin loses the will to live. His death by drowning in the Charles River on June 2, 1910 perhaps reflects Faulkner's own deepest feelings about man and his problems. Even Dilsey, perhaps, is not more a beloved character than Quentin. But it is obliquely with Dilsey and with the idiot Benjy that The Sound and the Fury closes, and the much affirmed will to survive asserts itself once more as the characters...
Harvard University's particular debt to William Faulkner who died in Oxford, Mississippi on July 6 at the age of 65, would at first seem to be of questionable nature. It is in Cambridge that Quentin Compson takes his life by plunging into the Charles River. Quentin whose monologue forms the second (or third, depending on the edition) section of The Sound and the Fury, doubtless reflects some attributes of the archetypal Harvard student. One can hardly doubt that the philosophical debate on the meaning of time in the few minutes before being late to a nine o'clock lecture...
Probably the most important single factor in Faulkner's success as an artist lies in his ability at once to express a particular culture and state of mind peculiar to the American South and to give that expression universal validity through his art. The impress of the Southern consciousness upon Faulkner's works cannot be erased. The philosophical longing for an ideal society long vanished and the painful consciousness of the attrition of the remaining institutions of that society reflect a state of mind that at its most eloquent, approaches the Romantic lament for a lament which has progressed...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. In a fresh, comic book, the sage of Yoknapatawpha County matches Mark Twain as a teller of tall stories, laces his narrative with agreeable anecdotes...
...Reivers, Faulkner...