Word: faulknerisms
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...misfortune to arrive on the scene late, with the result that many allusions to certain characters, both quick and dead, were difficult to place. Raymond Chandler's story is complex, and it seems that a William Faulkner, who later rose to some measure of literary fame, has tampered with it along with two other fellows who were attempting to make a living out in Hollywood about 15 or 20 years ago; and Mr. Faulkner, according to certain critics, has never excelled in the virtues of simplicity anyhow. But this is quibbling, and with the movie the CRIMSON can have...
...read one book by each of the young writers, just to keep in the swim. I think I've read all the first books written by Hemingway, Wolfe, Faulkner, Dreiser, and Wylie." No one influenced his style, however. Like Topsy, it just growed. "I don't know how I got it, I just can't write any other way now. When I was sixteen, I started experimenting with words. Then I got a job on the Atlanta Journal, police reporter. It taught me to write something every day, and now I put in a nine-to-five day, except when...
...University of North Carolina, Man-About-Books Malcolm (Exile's Return) Cowley took one of Chapel Hill's best-known grads down a peg. Thomas (Look Homeward, Angel) Wolfe was not the great modern American novelist (as claimed by none other than Novelist William Faulkner), in fact rates below both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, argued Critic Cowley, adding: "Wolfe never broke out of writing expanded lyric poems about himself...
...Long, Hot Summer (20th Century-Fox) bears only a remote resemblance to the William Faulkner tales on which it is based (The Hamlet, Barn Burning). The Hamlet, in which Author Faulkner aired the moral midden of Yoknapatawpha County in an ecstasy of disgust, is particularly strong stuff, and Producer Jerry Wald clearly had to clean up his subject for the screen. In the process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh...
...that, it is a pretty exciting movie. Faulkner is as hard to kill as a Mississippi water moccasin, and his energy coils and snaps and hisses in the hundred distortions of the story. To begin with, the young man of the "broad, flat face [with] eyes the color of stagnant water" has been transformed by Hollywood into a dreamy-looking cinemactor named Paul Newman-but Newman's performance as Ben Quick, before the script blunts it, is as mean and keen as a cackle-edge scythe. And Eula Varner, she of the "kaleidoscopic convolution of mammalian ellipses," is divided...