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...probably unfair to both the Advocate and James Buechler to begin a review of the magazine's Spring Issue with an evaluation of his contribution, but "1936, War in Spain" is simply aching for criticism. According to the Advocate Notes, Buechler says his story is "political," and that he wrote it shortly after reading a book by George Orwell...
...Pepicelli," the first story, by James Buechler is written in the idiom of an Italian laborer. Had it been done poorly, the prose might have spoiled the treatment of a simple mind confronted by the mysterious, in this case a motorcycle. To Pepicelli, the machine becomes a sort of magic carpet or Genie, and escape from a stolid, unromantic wife. But the motorcycle is not only an escape, it is an end in itself, it becomes his mistress, and in the end it and Pepicelli disappear down the street, never to return...
...most interesting thing about the issue itself is the dominance of two reviews, Konrad Kaplowitz's dissection of David Riesman and James Buechler's analysis of Faulkner's Fable. The reviews are comparatively free of Advocatish pedantry and critical generalizations; they are both above the standards of the Sunday Times, the Saturday or Partisan reviews...
...Buechler, unlike most of those who have struggled with the Fable, takes the book neither as an opportunity to grovel before the master nor to throw dirt in his face. Nor is he mesmerized by the Christ analogies, but instead considers the equally important Faulknerian themes of sacrifice and human dignity as they appear in the book. My only quarrel with the review, in fact, is its conclusion, wherein Buechler, after making what seemed like a good analysis of a bad book, urges it upon the unsuspecting reader: "Any book of Faulkner's deserves to be read and considered simply...