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...official harassment, including secret police threats to murder him and his family. In another statement issued to Western newsmen last week, he disclosed that a Leningrad woman had hanged herself after five days of interrogation by the KGB had forced her to reveal the whereabouts of a hidden Solzhenitsyn manuscript. Police seizure of this unpublished work-a documentary record of Stalinist concentration camps-has greatly alarmed the author because 200 of the prisoners he interviewed for the book are still alive. They are now subject to reprisal, as is Solzhenitsyn...
WELCOME yet another dusted off manuscript from the dark regions of scholardom, but make your welcome short and get on with your business. But if you have nothing else to do, if you're in the the throes of existential crisis, you can always justify your passivity by actively avoiding Flags in the Dust. If that doesn't work, you can read the damn thing and claim to have read two novels--a sure fire way to improve your reading speed. Flags is the original manuscript version of Sartoris, Faulkner's earliest novel of the sprawling Yoknapatawpha County he would...
...today from what Sartoris said almost half a century ago. It is perhaps a slightly better introduction to Yoknapatawpha County because it describes in more detail a few characters who will play a larger part in later Faulkner novels. Scholars of Faulkner will eat the stuff up--comparing the manuscript to the original, chasing down differences in dates, names, places, etc. (Bayard's great-grandfather, according to those in the know, died on three different dates in three different novels...
...despite the fact that the manuscript is an editor's compilation of three overlapping manuscripts--no intact manuscript was found--the scholars will add Flags in the Dust to their literary graveyard, and dispute, one can be certain, the ghosts that fly out of it. One such ghost sums up the difference between Sartoris and Flags. In Sartoris, this sentence appears: "Bayard answered mildly, with weak astonishment." In Flags it is: "Bayard answered weakly, with mild astonishment...
...Good writing should not be easy to read, Mailer reasoned in Advertisements for Myself, it should be Nearly As Demandingas the act of writing itself. In consonance with this existential reformulation, of his style, Mailer spent agonizing months rewriting flowstoppers, involutions and other grammatical roadblocks into the Deer Park manuscript, ostensibly to keep the readers concentration as high as the threshold of pain of writing...