Essays by Susan V. Donaldson, Lael Gold, Adam Gussow, Martin
Kreiswirth, Jay Parini, Noel Polk, Judith L. Sensibar, Jon Smith,
and Priscilla Wald William Faulkner once said that the writer
""collects his material all his life from everything he reads, from
everything he listens to, everything he sees, and he stores that
away in sort of a filing cabinet . . . in my case it's not anything
near as neat as a filing case; it's more like a junk box.""
Faulkner tended to be quite casual about his influences. For
example, he referred to the South as ""not very important to me. I
just happen to know it, and don't have time in one life to learn
another one and write at the same time."" His Christian background,
according to him, was simply another tool he might pick up on one
of his visits to ""the lumber room"" that would help him tell a
story. Sometimes he claimed he never read James Joyce's Ulysses or
had never heard of Thomas Mann--writers he would elsewhere declare
as ""the two great men in my time."" Sometimes he expressed
annoyance at readers who found esoteric theory in his fiction, when
all he wanted them to find was Faulkner: ""I have never read
[Freud]. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if Melville did either,
and I'm sure Moby-Dick didn't."" Nevertheless, Faulkner's life was
rich in what he did, saw, and read, and he seems to have remembered
all of it and put it to use in his fiction. Faulkner's Inheritance
is a collection of essays that examines the influences on
Faulkner's fiction, including his own family history, Jim Crow
laws, contemporary fashion, popular culture, and literature.
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