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Toil & Trouble. In Manhattan, Author Meets the Critics-minus one critic-came on the air for a discussion of William Faulkner's A Fable. Author Frank (Five Gentlemen of Japan) Gibney arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher...
Novelist William Faulkner, notably tight-lipped on home soil, last week found tongue for some reflections on life, letters and Faulkner, while attending the International Congress of Writers in Brazil...
...Fable, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner unveils a World War I passion play with a corporal as Christ, but veils his deeper meanings except to suggest that "man and his folly . . . will prevail" (TIME...
...Fable is well named. Just as Faulkner's South is deplored by most Southerners as a region only he has ever seen, so World War I becomes in A Fable a restless residue of the Faulknerian imagination. A volunteer in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1918, Faulkner did not get beyond flight training. In A Fable, however, he writes about air combat, the danger and boredom of infantry fighting, the deepest contemplations of generals, with a confidence that suggests he has experienced all of them simultaneously...
...sparkplug of Faulkner's mutiny is an illiterate French corporal, who is drawn in Christlike dimensions and has attracted to himself twelve disciples. The 13 roam the Allied front on leave, even, it is believed, cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate...