Word: sartorises
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Sartoris
Twenty percent of its population are black. The other 80% are an amalgam of mint-julep aristocrats out of Faulkner's Sartoris clan, Mexican Americans from Texas, Roman Catholic Cajuns in Louisiana, Cubans and Jews in Miami, Vietnamese resettled on the Gulf Coast and Anglo-Saxon Baptists everywhere.
Not from formal education, which he abandoned in high school. The learning that mattered to him began almost at birth. His childhood in turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family...
Unlike Fitzgerald, Faulkner never replayed these struggles in his writing. In fact, precious few of the thousands of personal details Blotner offers shed any new light on Faulkner's novels. That is not the point Blotner wants to make, but it is an extraordinary discovery. And it is most...
Yes, 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...