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...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. This wise, skillful first novel about a Carolina country girl's attempts to keep both her fiance and her virtue is marred only by an occasional too-swooping bow toward William Faulkner...
...Brattle. And where else could you audit such courses as Comp. Lit 248, Modern Forms of Ambiguity, in which "we shall consider how the trends, first synthesized in Dostoevsky, later developed separately by Conrad, Gido, Joyce, and Proust, finally became re-integrated again in the novels of William Faulkner." That might not be great satire, but at least it sounds familiar...
Turning up at West Point for a two-day visit, Nobel prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner, 64, confessed himself "pleasantly astounded" at the sharpness of the G.I. types. At Princeton and the University of Virginia, said he. the queries had been "a little soft." but the cadets. having boned up on The Hamlet and Light in August for days past, were "up" for the meeting. Is a writer ever satisfied? asked one. If he is, replied Faulkner, he should "cut his throat and quit." Which of his books was his favorite? The Sound and the Fury, because, like a crippled child...
Murray Burns (Jason Robards Jr.) has quit his job as writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this...
...window; gold chains from star to star, and I'm dancing." Today, the influence of Rimbaud is visible in the works of such diverse poets as Nobel Prizewinner St. John Perse and Beatnik Allen Ginsberg, in the prose effusions of novelists as different as Henry Miller and William Faulkner...