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REQUIEM FOR A NUN (286 pp.]-William Faulkner-Random House...
...best novelist writing in the U.S. today? By many a gauge-including the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature-the answer is William Faulkner. Yet Mississippi Novelist Faulkner can claim more roots than rooters in the U.S. One reason: his explosive Southern fables are sometimes hooked to devious verbal fuses that leave the average reader weary or wondering. When he wants to, Faulkner can also be as direct as a bolt of summer lightning. Requiem for a Nun is a tantalizing blend of both Faulkners. It rates a middle pass on a fictional report card starred with such finer achievements...
Requiem is notable for lesser things: a structure spliced play-fashion into acts and scenes, a breathless, 49-page, nonstop sentence, one of the longest in world literature,* and a story which reads like a moral sequel to Faulkner's own gamy shocker, Sanctuary...
...Faulkner, the British Open Golf championship, over Runner-Up Antonio Cerda of Argentina, 285-287; in Portrush, Ireland...
...father of two little girls, "Tuco" (Glowworm) Paz plays the guitar, dances to flamenco tunes, likes bebop, reads Faulkner and Dos Passes. He is the author of a prizewinning book of short stories (The Abyss), detective yarns, unpublished poetry, three volumes on Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine...