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...Faulkner on Waugh on Hemingway (Faulkner upheld Waugh's criticism of the critics of Hemingway's new novel, Across the River and into the Trees) in TIME Letters...
...would say I think Across the River and into the Trees stinks except I did not write Men Without Women and The Sun Also Rises and therefore, by Mr. Faulkner's logic, I have nothing to stand on while I throw such a spitball. Would a few well-placed spitballs have saved Hemingway from the pitfall of delusion wherein he has knocked out Flaubert and others? If Hemingway does not need defending, as Mr. Faulkner asserts, why did Mr. Waugh and Mr. Faulkner bother? Is it that they are trusting to be his seconds when he gets into...
...Nobel literary prizewinner, also named last week, was 78-year-old British Philosopher Bertrand,Lord Russell. The 1949 literary prize, held over from last fall because members of the Swedish Academy failed to agree on a candidate, went to U.S. Novelist William Faulkner, 53-year-old Mississippian...
...Oxford, Miss., Prizewinner Faulkner declined interviews. Said he: "When I receive formal notification ... I'll let the newspapers have a statement. And I'll take a couple of days to prepare it." Faulkner won his prize ($30,007, compared to Russell's $31,715) "for his powerful and artistically independent contribution to the new American novel...
...crustaceans of his hermetic imagination to caress the tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush...