Mosquitoes (Faulkner)
Mosquitoes
By WILLIAM FAULKNER
Author of SOLDIERS' PAY
THE author of that fine first novel, Soldiers' Pay, is here, in Mosquitoes, in an entirely different mood. He has written Mosquitoes with his tongue in his cheek and an evident desire to tell the truth about some of his friends and enemies.
The title refers to the type of people with the characteristics of the pest—buzzing nonentities, boring idiots, stinging parasites. But in telling about them Faulkner has made them as charming as humming birds to us, even if they are mosquitoes to each other.
The story tells of a yachting party of strangely assorted people. The yacht belongs to a New Orleans matron, a social climber and literary lion hunter, who collects
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MOSQUITOES
By
WILLIAM FAULKNER
NEW YORK
BONI AND LIVERIGHT
1927
copyright 1927 :: by
BONI&LIVERIGHT,Inc.
printed in the united states
Renewal © 1955 by William Faulkner.
This facsimile of the first edition is published by
The First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut,
by arrangement with Liveright Publishing Corporation.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced in any form without the permission of
Liveright Publishing Corporation.
HELEN
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a famous writer, a sculptor, a naive Englishman, a sex-innocent idiot, a most modern young lady and a her mechanically inclined brother (the most modern young lady has herself invited a girl from a much lower stratum of society, and her tough sweetie), and various other assorted Toms, Dicks and Harriets.
They almost all come against their better judgements: they all more or less live to regret it. But the reader does not for a moment. Their conversation is so amazingly brilliant, the things that transpire so unique and startling, the two affaires de coeur that romanticize the trip so lovely, that we are all very happy to be stowaways on the trip.
One is irresistibly reminded of South Wind by this book.
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William Faulkner
Some Critical Opinions of his previous novel—
Soldiers' Pay
"The novel is moving and intense. The story alone is a gem but for deeper things that lie back of the mere plot the book is likely to become a classic."
"Soldiers' Pay has fervor and strength."—Sat. Review of Lit.
"We have read a great many novels that portrayed the disillusioned veteran's conflict with the unfamiliar life of restored peace, but, in our opinion, for originality of design and beauty of writing, this book stands alone among them. Pathos, sacrifice, heroism, a magical beauty are here in abundance."—N. Y. Evening Post.
"A deft hand has woven this narrative of mixed and frustrated emotions and has set it down with hard intelligence as well as consummate pity. The book rings true."
"'Soldiers' Pay' is the best novel written about the war. The novel in every way is a memorable piece of work."—New Orleans Item.
"Like it or hate it, the after-war period is here in 'Soldiers' Pay.' To put it in a word, this seems to be one of the books that will be worth reading a few years from now, when most of its mates on the spring list of best fiction are meditating dustily on inaccessible shelves."
"His book seems to be a rich compound of imagination, observation and experience. In an isolated world of Faulkner's own making, shadows having the reality of men grope through a maze complex enough to be at once pitiful and comic, passionate, tormenting and strange."—Louis Kronenberger, in The Literary Digest.
"There is an irony so deep, so intense as to be purged of all bitterness, the tony with which one views the unbelievable and knows it to be true."
"A story so moving and so intense, so blending of humor and insight and pity that the thesis is lost sight of until long after the book is reluctantly closed."
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