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LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner- Smith & Haas...
Those who from experience expect each Faulkner tale to be more gruesomely Gothic than the last will be disappointed in Light in August. Not nearly so horrible as Sanctuary (TIME...
...through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid Southern melodramas of Mississippi's Author William Faulkner who specializes in social decay amid evil surroundings...
...critical notes of the issue contain a pronounced dissent from the worship of yesterday's literary deities. The author of the current editorial has made the immense discov- ery that "violence can be a vogue and, like all vogues, presently become outworn." Therefore, O'Neill, Jeffers, and Faulkner are each awarded a great big question mark. Regardless of what posterity will ultimately decide to be the permanent value of these authors, I cannot help feeling that such an editorial at this particular moment is a sign of health,--or else of some healthy influences. But Mr. Blanc awards to James...
...Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics found it still a little Savage. To those who saw the work of other candidates from other schools there could be no suggestion that the jury (Artists Barry Faulkner, Allyn Cox, Ezra Winter, James Monroe Hewlett, Abram Poole, Gari Melchers) was biased in its decision. The Yale School of Fine Arts may be imitative, slightly archaic, but it does give its pupils a knowledge of drawing and the use of paint apparently unequalled in other college art schools...