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...Faulkner like the Compsons finds meaning in the past, he is not concerned with the Snopeses who find a very limited type of truth in the future. The Snopeses may succeed in their own terms, but in Faulkner's frame of reference they have no future, no "truth...
...Faulkner just could not be content with narrating facts or telling a fabulous story. Yet he lacks the energy within himself and the material in the Snopeses to concern himself in this book with "truth...
These are the disconcerting themes within the Snopeses, and the author makes constant references to figures of his previous novels. It would be a disappointment to expect Faulkner to ignore his past, but the search for a tragic truth has no place amongest the grotesque and humorous Snopeses...
...Laws. William Faulkner has an unabashed sense of caste, honor and history. To him Appomattox was only yesterday, and he feels deeply "our gallant lost irrevocable unreconstructible debacle." This sense gives the tragic dimension to his novels, even when he appears merely to be telling elaborate stories of a little town in the Deep South. If the clowns are there, blowing up bladders in the wings and trading anecdotes with the witches, it is because his theater resembles Macbeth's and Shakespeare's. Another Elizabethan, Thomas ("Bad money drives out good'') Gresham. seems to have suggested...
...Faulkner scarcely believes in the good old plantation Sartorises and the old Southern heaven, but he believes in its present hell. He is a Manichaean and a Mississippian, a confused and magnificent novelist whose magnificence comes from his confusion and that of the people he has made...