> on 7/13/03 1:43 PM, Graham Powell at
bleekerbooks@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> I would suggest "That Evening Sun" as another
hardboiled Faulkner tale. [...]
> It seems to me that His writing wasn't as
straightforward as most crime
> writing
If
you'll forgive a teensy bit of "Duh! Factor" ... what
about
Faulkner's "Sanctuary"?
That's the one with crime and sexual
violation and plenty of
nasty attitude. It's also, of course, the
book that James Hadley
Chase famously raided to create "No Orchids
For Miss Blandish."
Faulkner
also created his own detective -- Gavin Stevens --
around
whom he wrote his
"Knight's Gambit" stories.
And as
for Faulkner's writing not being "straightforward" --
he's
at least as
straightforward as Proust or Garcia Marquez! In other
words, "straightforward"
is not what the man does ... and looking for
direct linear narrative
in Faulkner is something akin to looking for
fistfights in "What
Maisie Knew." It ain't gonna happen.
Chris
P.S. By the way, isn't
Duane Spurlock's talking (7/12/03) of "Wild
Palms" in isolation from
"Old Man" a bit like talking about Kitty and
Levin in "Anna Karenina"
with no reference whatsoever to Anna or
Vronsky? "Wild Palms"/"If
I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem" isn't a
collection of stories,
odd publishing history notwithstanding. It's a
*novel*, something where
two plots are woven together like snakes
around a caduceus.
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