Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, on the other hand, the book sticks to its professed purpose of giving the reader a glimpse into Faulkner's world it is interesting, amusing, and glib...
...research into Faulkner's family rest, and occasionally jotting down history and especially into the life of great-grandfather William Cuthbert Faulkner provides a good deal of insight into the sources of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County characters and their stories. The great-grandfather was the living model for Colonel John Sartoris, one of the central figures in the Jefferson Sags, and in the figure of Faulkner himself, painfully dedicated to the labor of reproducing this family legend, lies a clue to the Reverend High tower of Light in August and the obsession with ancestral heroism which he carried with...
...book with an overdose of anecdotes. He seems to become so involved with the writer's eccentricities that, instead of trying to explain them or put them in proper perspective, he piles amusing incidents on the reader so heavily that the chapter largely destroys the clear outline of Faulkner the man that he has sketched in the earlied part of the book...
...world which Coughlin reveals in his book, moreover, is not really Faulkner's private world. There is a distinct feeling that he is looking in, that he has failed to get beneath the surface or Faulkner's life and is only recording, as fully and as competently as possible, the externals of this world...
...externals are interesting in themselves, and Coughlin has reproduced them faithfully. If the Faulkner student accepts the limitations of this study, he will find much in it to interest and amuse...