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“The Most Splendid Failure” – William Faulkner on The Sound and the Fury
“The Most Splendid Failure” – William Faulkner on The Sound and the Fury
By J. Francis Wolfe
September 24, 2014

Now hailed as a masterpiece, Faulkner's novel was initially written off by the public and the author himself. Why?

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Ken Kesey’s Exhausted Heroes
Ken Kesey’s Exhausted Heroes
By J. Francis Wolfe
September 17, 2014

Randle Patrick McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hank Stamper of Sometimes a Great Notion: two men of incredible strength whom Kesey brings to their knees. Why?

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