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COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER (900 pp.) -Random House...
Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Sanctuary) has no time for literary circles. An iron-grey, taciturn man of 52, he much prefers hunting and fishing. Nonetheless, for 20 years, he has been one of the leading enthusiasms of U.S. literary-intellectual pundits. Next month, for the first time, a book by William Faulkner is a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection. A fat collection of 42 Faulkner tales written over the past quarter-century, Collected Stories will let a brand-new layer of U.S. readers judge for themselves what all the critical...
...writer, Faulkner shuttles between two worlds. One of them is easily recognizable because most people spend most of their time in it: the grey one of everyday life. Faulkner describes its persons and places: down & outers in Manhattan's Penn Station, war veterans living on pride, hungry poets mooching from a successful colleague. If this were all that Faulkner could do, he would be buried in an obscure corner of U.S. letters, as a minor realist in the tradition of Dos Passes, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...
Jeromo P. Gavin '50 won the George B. Sohier award of $250 for his thesis: "The Act of Involvement in William Faulkner's Light in August." One Radcliffe and two College seniors received honorable mention: Mary T. Moulton, Robert M. Durling, and David L. Jones...