William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of Faulk...

William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of Faulk...

William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that his short stories are second to his novels in all respect...

I can remember having wondered, while in graduate school in the early 1960s, "What is so awful about William Saroyan?" Philip Rahv (included here) had provided an answer based on a convenient overlapping of Marxist and Formalist aesthetics. There was, furthermore, the Original...

William Faulkner's Short Fiction: An International Symposium, edited by Hans H. Skei, Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1997. 329 pp. $34.95; EVERY ARTIST NEEDS "a special world of which he alone has the key," noted Andre Gide in one of his journals. In his...