Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of North Carolina, Man-About-Books Malcolm (Exile's Return) Cowley took one of Chapel Hill's best-known grads down a peg. Thomas (Look Homeward, Angel) Wolfe was not the great modern American novelist (as claimed by none other than Novelist William Faulkner), in fact rates below both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, argued Critic Cowley, adding: "Wolfe never broke out of writing expanded lyric poems about himself...
...Long, Hot Summer (20th Century-Fox) bears only a remote resemblance to the William Faulkner tales on which it is based (The Hamlet, Barn Burning). The Hamlet, in which Author Faulkner aired the moral midden of Yoknapatawpha County in an ecstasy of disgust, is particularly strong stuff, and Producer Jerry Wald clearly had to clean up his subject for the screen. In the process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh...
Home from the Hill is notable for its firm evocation of small-town attitudes. Like Faulkner, Humphrey knows that customs, especially Southern customs, are as important as life itself, and that to flout them can mean inviting death. Unlike Faulkner, he can unravel fabrics of suspicion, deceit, envy, love and hatred without getting the strands into a seemingly unmanageable snarl. His fine hunting scenes create a nostalgia for a vanishing side of U.S. life, and the crash of Theron Hunnicutt's ideals marks the passing of a Southern code of conduct. A book that a bit too plainly shows...
...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
...lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before he did it and the editors have wisely chosen to print them as prologues to the book's sections rather than insert them without...