ABSTRACT
Plenty ofpeople are trying to write novels which they hope will please the public and make them some money; a few are trying to use the novel as an art form, and a very few are succeeding.
Mr. Faulkner belongs to the smallest and most distinguished category. He is gradually building up a reputation in his native America, and his English public, though small, is enthusiastic. His subject matter is usually (as in this new novel, Light in August) the crude violent stuff of the ordinary crook or crime story. The originality of Mr. Faulkner lies in the treatment ofhis material and his attitude towards it.
