Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Review. Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just as intense as his animosities, he called Robert Frost "the finest American poet, living or dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back pages of the Saturday Review continued to be given over...
...builder of a city who lays out his streets in advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect, he has put down one street and then built houses miles away from it. As the same characters (or their sons and grandsons) turned up in volume after volume, critics suspected that Faulkner had some unified plan that would become apparent...
Last week a collection of characteristic Faulkner short stories brought his scattered characters a little closer together. A lively book in its own right, made up of seven tales of the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished is also interesting for the light it throws on obscure episodes and characters in Faulkner's other novels. Because the stories are told by Bayard Sartoris, they close one of the gaps in the chronicle of Sartoris' family who, along with the Compsons, the Sutpens, the Coldfields, and their slaves, overseers and illegitimate children, make up much of Jefferson...
...point the good name of Southern womanhood must be protected, and Drusilla and Sartoris, two innocent, high-minded people who do not love each other, are forced to marry. This prepares the scene for tragedy in the next generation, is one of the aspects of The Unvanquished that suggest Faulkner knows exactly what he is doing in tracing the New South to its origin...
Driven by Faulkner, Wolfe, and even worse...