Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he flew to Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize money, Novelist William (Intruder in the Dust) Faulkner, a qualified authority on the seamy side of life, was cornered by Manhattan reporters who asked him what he considered the most decadent aspect of American life. Answered Faulkner: "It's this running people down and getting interviews and pictures of them just because something's happened to them." For the presentation in Stockholm, Faulkner made his first appearance before a microphone and TV cameras, wore white tie & tails for the first time, met fellow Prizewinner Bertrand Russell...
Among U.S. top-division writers, Mississippi's William Faulkner had the best year. Over the protests of at least one Mississippi editor, the Jackson Daily News's Frederick Sullens, who still insisted that Faulkner belongs to the "garbage-can school," he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature. His Collected Stories, a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection, demonstrated again that, at the top of his form, Faulkner is one of the very best U.S. writers of his generation...
...Faulkner on Waugh on Hemingway (Faulkner upheld Waugh's criticism of the critics of Hemingway's new novel, Across the River and into the Trees) in TIME Letters...
...would say I think Across the River and into the Trees stinks except I did not write Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and therefore, by Mr. Faulkner's logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into...
...crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush...