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Hardly Worth While
Fadiman, Clifton P. | January 15, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulkner. It is a novel by an extremely talented young writer dealing with the mental and physical disintegration of a Southern family. The reader should make an analysis of the methods employed by the artist to produce a given effect; and at the same time he should experience a synthetic appreciation of that effect in its emotional totality. The analysis must be almost instantaneous, almost unconscious. Otherwise the reader may become enmeshed in a tangle of aesthetic judgments, and experience difficulty in feeling the work of art as a whole.

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BOOKS & reading; SOUND & the Fury, The (Book); FAULKNER, William, 1897-1962; FAMILY; EMOTIONS; SOCIOLOGY literature
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