Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novel Doctrine...
When Charles Dickens published his second novel, Oliver Twist, in 1838, no loud cries of "anti-Semitism!" were raised -though one of the principal characters in the book was a "villainous-looking and repulsive" old Jew named Fagin. Last week there was a chorus of loud cries in the U.S.* over the new movie version of Oliver Twist...
Creatures of Decay. Faulkner's view of the South has no trace of magnolia-and-old-plantation romanticism; it is tough and realistic, even if sometimes debatable. From novel to novel, weaving backward and forward in patterns of time as intricate as his twining sentences, Faulkner has developed his picture of a society devastated by war-a society that was both honorable and doomed by an inherent guilt. In his view the South was right in insisting on its sovereignty but cursed by the shame of slavery. It had to fight and was doomed to lose...
...scheme of Faulkner's work, Intruder in the Dust is a key novel, his one book that offers a sign of hope that the South may yet extricate itself from the swamps of hatred and violence. Though not so structurally daring as The Sound and the Fury, nor so eloquent as Light in August, nor so sensational as Sanctuary, Faulkner's latest book is a better told and more firmly bound story than any of these...
...Self-Possessed. Two main characters dominate the novel. One is Charles Mallison, a 16-year-old boy who, in the scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race...