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Minor Faulkner
Howe, Irving | November 12, 1949 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Knight's Gambit," by William Faulkner. Faulkner, certainly the best novelist, likes to write "detective stories" between novels. Faulkner writes then partly for money, but it seems obvious that he enjoys the conventional manipulation of motive and situation required by the detective story in much the same way that comedian W.C. Fields enjoyed retreating to "pure" routines of juggling. In Faulkner's work, it is possible to find the major themes like the reiterated admiration for the two human qualities he most admires, honor and fidelity; the shy convoluted respect for the Negroes, partly native to him and partly literary adherence to a myth bred in guilt.

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KNIGHT'S Gambit (Book); FAULKNER, William, 1897-1962; BOOKS; HUMAN behavior; HONOR; MANIPULATIVE behavior; MYTHOLOGY
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