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...FABLE (437 pp.)-William Faulkner -Random House...
...Nobel Prize speech, Novelist William Faulkner made much of the "agony and sweat" that went into his writing. He might, with equal pertinence, have dwelt on the agony and sweat that he requires of his readers. To his admirers, a new Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort...
...spring, the "enormous pipeline." as one publisher put it, was hopelessly clogged. Said one publishing spokesman: "Most of this was hack stuff, trash. The public rebelled." No publisher and few readers wanted to see the paperbacks disappear. Along with the rubbish have come reprints of first-rate writing, e.g., Faulkner and Hemingway. Low paperback prices-in contrast with prohibitively priced hard-cover books-attracted a whole new reading public. Some publishers believe that the present shake-out is healthy, may restore some dignity to the paperback business...
Edward C. Cumming '54 won the $400 Helen Choate Bell Prize for his essay "William Faulkner: Peasants and Snopeses." Honorable mention went to David M. Kalstone '54 for his paper "Henry James as Social Critic: The Final Vision." The Helen Choate Bell Prize is given "for merit in work in the field of American Literature...
...three: 1) The Silver Chalice, with Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance and "a cast of thousands" in Novelist Thomas B. Costain's story about the cup Christ used at the Last Supper; 2) Land of the Pharaohs, which was written for the movies by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner; 3) Daniel and the Woman of Babylon, which has not yet been cast...