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Sartoris v. Snopes. The other Faulkner world is the one he has made his own: mythical Yoknapatawpha County in northern Mississippi, a landscape haunted by an unsettled past and an unwanted future. The past survives in the memory of the old South, its code of courage and chivalry, its moral...
In the ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to...
When Miss Prall, who had recently married Sherwood Anderson, came to New Orleans, Faulkner visited her, became Anderson's close friend. He turned to novels, under Anderson's influence, wrote Soldiers' Pay. Mrs. Anderson volunteered to get Sherwood to read the book, to recommend it to Publisher...
The Toy Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this...
The bulk of the story centers about the character of Granny Sartoris. She embodies the spirit of "The Unvanquished" older generation. Although a woman, she is responsible for the wellbeing of her community by some clever if shady dealings with Yankee officers. She manages to keep her own plantation and...