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But the "Garibaldini." unlike the stars, will not keep their distance. When his dashing nephew Tancredi joins the revolutionary redshirts, Don Fabrizio is forced to applaud the boy's dry, foxy reasoning: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." As his next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy for an Autocrat | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

His research into Faulkner's family rest, and occasionally jotting down history and especially into the life of great-grandfather William Cuthbert Faulkner provides a good deal of insight into the sources of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County characters and their stories. The great-grandfather was the living model for Colonel...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Some Facts On William Faulkner | 10/28/1954 | See Source »

In his stories, the Sartoris family represents the past-former aristocrats who lose themselves in gentility, alcohol, rhetoric and madness. The Snopes family symbolizes the future; they are coldly, and crudely, on the make. The process of degeneration hits bottom when a third type appears: people who use the Sartoris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Landscapes | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Faulkner's instinctive sympathies are with the founders of the Sartoris clan, who tamed the country and fought in the Civil War. But he realizes that their way of life is dead forever, largely because they allowed it to be corrupted by slavery. Some of Faulkner's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Landscapes | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

North & South. This view of the South as an area trapped between Sartoris impotence and Snopes viciousness explains Faulkner's harshness and fury. He is a man possessed and tortured by his vision: too honest to deny it, too sensitive to tolerate it. The horrors of his books-the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Landscapes | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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