The universality of William Faulkner's vision was perhaps most
formally recognized in 1950, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature. But even beyond the basic human truths embodied in
the people and terrain of Yoknapatawpha County, there is a special
kinship between Faulkner's novels and stories of the defeated South
and the culture of postwar Japan, itself reeling from the shock of
surrender and reconstruction at the hands of a foreign army.
Reflecting this kinship, "Faulkner Studies in Japan" brings
together some of the finest critical essays on Faulkner published
in Japan in recent years along with discussions by several of
Japan's leading novelists of Faulkner's influence on their work.
The collection includes essay on broad aspects of Faulkner's
writing-the influence of T.S. Eliot on the fiction, the pervasive
use of motion imagery-and on such individual works as Light in
August and the story of "Was" from Go Down, Moses. The book also
presents an overview of Faulkner scholarship in Japan by Kiyoyuki
Ono and an Afterword by Carvel Collins that recalls Faulkner's
visit to Japan in 1955.
At the time of Faulkner's visit, Japanese scholarly interest in
his works was already firmly established and in the succeeding
years the fascination has, if anything, increased. Commemorating
the thirtieth anniversary of Faulkner's four-week tour, "Faulkner
Studies in Japan" explore the natural literary sympathy that the
novelist himself recognized when he stated: "I believe that
something very like what happened in the American South] will
happen here in Japan in the next few years--that out of your
despair and disaster will come a group of Japanese writers whom all
the world will want to listen to, who will speak not a Japanese
truth but a universal truth.
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