Word: yoknapatawpha
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...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
...Snopeses live in the world of Yoknapatawpha County amongst the legends and the myths of the past. They are surrounded by stories of man's need to destroy himself and the present so as to have revenge upon and gain unity with the past. They have the ruined plantations lying barren around them, they have sterility, incest, and divided houses...
...first novel in three years William Faulkner displays the vision of a Hieronymus Bosch rendered in the style of Grandma Moses. The demons who emerge from the earth are those old familiars-the Snopeses-and the earth is the red clay of Yoknapatawpha County, Miss. Yet Faulkner is not what he appears to be-a regional novelist; he is a novelist of the nether regions...
...Flem Snopes, a repellent specimen of white trash, sidled into Frenchman's Bend. Now, in The Town (the second book in an intended trilogy), Faulkner takes Flem Snopes from his earlier triumphs over the steppingstones of other men's dead selves to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat (which closely resembles Oxford, Miss., where Novelist Faulkner has lived for most of his life...
...Yoknapatawpha...