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Died. William Faulkner, 64, U.S. novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Oxford, Miss, (see BOOKS...
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...time of William Faulkner was long enough for his work to be read, misread, raged at and, for a long while, largely forgotten. By 1945 not one of his novels was in print in the U.S. Neglect suited Faulkner well enough; he was a shy man, and as indifferent to the reception of his work as it is possible for an artist to be. But before long, reporters were straining his Southern civility. The praise of a few perceptive U.S. critics had stirred interest in Europe, and in 1950 Faulkner received the Nobel Prize. By last week, when William Faulkner...
...Faulkner's art as its best has the intense but understated moral quality that distinguishes many masterpieces of the human mind. As a literary artist, Faulkner wrestled manfully with the problems of the individual and a collapsing social structure which is somehow still better than any alternative. That Faulkner in his literary works never addressed the particular social issues that beset the South testifies to his deepest integrity as an artist. Recently, in a meeting with students at the University of Virginia, Faulkner spoke of his own writings on social and political problems. He noted that the writer, when...
...problems Faulkner addresses in his novels are indeed universal problems, only coincidentally influenced by the exigencies of the moment. Like all great art, Faulkner's novels emerge from a sense of the timeless universe of unchanging human rather than from the dangerously ephemeral world of contemporary problems. Just as Faulkner locates the center of a writer's philosophical contribution in the writer's official statements of belief, he also recognizes the individual rather than society as the pivot of moral action. Harvard, product and producer of so many individuals of moral courage could have hardly desired a more honorable...