NPPF Faulkner and Proust

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Just a small remark on my way back to the literary world: VN
didn't like Faulkner at all, contemptuously referring to WF's
novels as "corncob chronicles" - can anybody recall where he
says that? So I surmise it is rather a "bad hat" reference...


Heikki


On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, jbor wrote:

> Kinbote's note to line 181:
>
>     ... a little pillar of library books ... they were mostly by
>     Mr Faulkner ...
>
>        "Speaking of novels ... Proust's rough masterpiece ... "
>
> I suspect Nabokov would have had a healthy admiration for Faulkner, and the
> reference here is perhaps in the spirit of a doff of the cap.