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...most interesting thing about the issue itself is the dominance of two reviews, Konrad Kaplowitz's dissection of David Riesman and James Buechler's analysis of Faulkner's Fable. The reviews are comparatively free of Advocatish pedantry and critical generalizations; they are both above the standards of the Sunday Times, the Saturday or Partisan reviews...
...equally important Faulknerian themes of sacrifice and human dignity as they appear in the book. My only quarrel with the review, in fact, is its conclusion, wherein Buechler, after making what seemed like a good analysis of a bad book, urges it upon the unsuspecting reader: "Any book of Faulkner's deserves to be read and considered simply because of what it is about, what is to be found in it." A book in which important but helpless ideas are ineptly roughed up does not necessarily deserve to be read. Any book of Faulkner's no more deserves...
Taking time out from his business with the Writers' International Congress, Author William (A Fable) Faulkner decided to sightsee among the well-known Brazilian tourist spots, ended up in the São Paulo snake farm with a full-grown snake coiled around his neck. Calm in the knowledge that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless...
...Fable, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner unveils a World War I passion play with a corporal as Christ, but veils his deeper meanings (TIME...
Married. Jill Faulkner, 21, only daughter of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William (A Fable) Faulkner; and Paul Dilwyn Summers Jr., 25, Washington law student; in Oxford, Miss...