Title
Hail Faulkner? A Fable, Competitive Modernism, and "the Nobelist" in the 1950s
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examines the influence of Hemingway and Faulkner’s literary rivalry on their work and professional identities as they competed for literary prominence in the last stages of their careers. Fruscione argues that the marketing and publication of Faulkner’s much heralded A Fable (1954) may have elevated Hemingway’s professional anxieties, evidenced in his correspondence and fictional references to Faulkner and his works in his posthumously published Islands in the Stream and “The Last Good Country,” which were written about the same time as A Fable.
Published in
Fifty Years after Faulkner
Date
2016
Pages
79-94
COinS
Citation
Fruscione, Joseph. “Hail Faulkner? A Fable, Competitive Modernism, and ‘the Nobelist’ in the 1950s.” In Fifty Years after Faulkner, edited by Jay Watson and Ann J. Abadie, 79-94. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.