Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Students soon got used to meeting him out for a solitary walk as late as 2 a.m., or having him show up unannounced to watch an R.O.T.C. drill or a track meet. By last week, as he completed his four-month stay as writer-in-residence, famed Novelist William Faulkner seemed as much a fixture at the University of Virginia as the maples that line the campus...
...Faulkner had never before settled at a college and spoken his mind. At first, neither he nor the university knew how the experiment in communication would turn out. Students were warned not to intrude on his personal life or ask for autographs. The prospect of facing a roomful of students terrified Faulkner...
...Faulkner like the Compsons finds meaning in the past, he is not concerned with the Snopeses who find a very limited type of truth in the future. The Snopeses may succeed in their own terms, but in Faulkner's frame of reference they have no future, no "truth...
...Faulkner just could not be content with narrating facts or telling a fabulous story. Yet he lacks the energy within himself and the material in the Snopeses to concern himself in this book with "truth...
These are the disconcerting themes within the Snopeses, and the author makes constant references to figures of his previous novels. It would be a disappointment to expect Faulkner to ignore his past, but the search for a tragic truth has no place amongest the grotesque and humorous Snopeses...