NP: NYT on Faulkner's Nobel Prize

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

"His field of vision is concentrated on a society that is too often vicious,
depraved, decadent, corrupt. Americans must fervently hope that the award by
a Swedish jury and the enormous vogue of Faulkner's works in Latin America and
on the European Continent, especially in France, does not mean that foreigners
admire him because he gives them the picture of American life they believe to
be typical and true. There has been too much of that feeling lately, again
especially in France. Incest and rape may be common pastimes in Faulkner's
"Jefferson, Miss." but they are not elsewhere in the United States."
New York Times editorial, Nov 11, 1950 (the day after the announcement)


Heikki