Hate, Greed, Lust and Doom
Sean O’Faolain, 16 April 1981
William Faulkner: His Life and Work
by David Minter.
Johns Hopkins, 325 pp., £9.50, January 1981,0 8018 2347 1 Show More
by David Minter.
Johns Hopkins, 325 pp., £9.50, January 1981,
“... incredible, badly-constructed and indeed rather silly Wild Palms as ‘flawed’; and Professor Minter is more than indulgent in presenting The Sound and the Fury as a ‘masterpiece’ – Bill Faulkner, though he worshipped at least one of its characters, the girl Candace, bluntly called the whole novel ‘a grand failure’. However, indulgence is the ... ”
