『スノープス三部作』とフォークナーの文学

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As Faulkner himself admits, there are found discrepancies and contradictions in the Snopes trilogy though it has a basic story unity. My Faulkner criticism in this essay is devoted to explaining how such a lack of consistency came into being in the development of the trilogy and clarifying his whole literature as well as the character of this work. The contradictory progress of the Snopes chronicle seemed to be brought about by a gradual change in his original intention of continuing to write the work with focus on a symbolical representation of Snopian invasion upon the South. I think that after completing The Hamlet in 1940 Faulkner had lost an interest in creating such a diabolical character as Flem Snopes and changed his mind to make the work with a comic content and ending. From these alterations of his attitude toward the Snopes story can I draw a general conclusion that Faulkner turned out an admirer of the South and that he became a writer of the comic work in the last years of his life.
東海大学の論文