William Faulkner

A Critical Study

By: Irving Howe

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Paperback | 1 August 1991 | Edition Number 4

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In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author''s works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. "The scheme of my book is simple," Mr. Howe writes. "First, I have tried to say what Faulkner''s work is `about,'' to report on the social and moral themes in his books; and then I have tried to analyze and evaluate the more important novels." Anyone who has enjoyed the special flavor of Faulkner''s writing will appreciate Mr. Howe''s careful analysis, and the student of twentieth-century American literature will gain new perspective and insight. Mr.Howe successfully portrays the intimate connection between Faulkner''s fiction and the emotional and psychic history of the South without slighting the universality that makes him one of America''s greatest writers. "Mr. Howe is a shrewd critic, and he writes of Faulkner''s achievements as a practicing novelist with a wary respect. He has a good many observations to make that should help readers in going through the novels.ââ"Alfred Kazin, New York Times.

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Here is a book that will be received with gratitude by readers who want to take headway in Faulkner's world but feel they need some guidance in their journey. The first section of the book is devoted to a discussion of Faulkner's social and moral themes, essentially his roots in and attitudes toward the South, its past, present, and future. Here is "The World of Yoknapatawpha", in which Faulkner tests the myth of the South, the myth of a defeated homeland which retreats from the troublesome present and the unavailable future into a glorious though constantly (for Faulkner) more questionable past. In the second portion of the book the author goes into more detailed analysis of the major portion of Faulkner's work. This is surely no definitive work on Faulkner - it will probably evoke comment from thinkers who feel differently about the artist's work or who feel that the book requires supplementation, but it is a thoughtful book which, honors (with some reservations) the artist and encourages the examination and enjoyment of his writing, thereby fulfilling Mr. Howe's concept of criticism. Howe feels that Faulkner's greatest strength (and contribution) lies in his capacity ?? enrich American literature with a direct and forceful utterance of universal and deep octions; that his limitation lies in his intellectual lack, to date, of the "capacity or a high order of comment and observation". (Kirkus Reviews)

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