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William Faulkner
Some Critical Opinions of his previous novel—
Soldiers' Pay
"The novel is moving and intense. The story alone is a gem but for deeper things that lie back of the mere plot the book is likely to become a classic."
"Soldiers' Pay has fervor and strength."—Sat. Review of Lit.
"We have read a great many novels that portrayed the disillusioned veteran's conflict with the unfamiliar life of restored peace, but, in our opinion, for originality of design and beauty of writing, this book stands alone among them. Pathos, sacrifice, heroism, a magical beauty are here in abundance."—N. Y. Evening Post.
"A deft hand has woven this narrative of mixed and frustrated emotions and has set it down with hard intelligence as well as consummate pity. The book rings true."
"'Soldiers' Pay' is the best novel written about the war. The novel in every way is a memorable piece of work."—New Orleans Item.
"Like it or hate it, the after-war period is here in 'Soldiers' Pay.' To put it in a word, this seems to be one of the books that will be worth reading a few years from now, when most of its mates on the spring list of best fiction are meditating dustily on inaccessible shelves."
"His book seems to be a rich compound of imagination, observation and experience. In an isolated world of Faulkner's own making, shadows having the reality of men grope through a maze complex enough to be at once pitiful and comic, passionate, tormenting and strange."—Louis Kronenberger, in The Literary Digest.
"There is an irony so deep, so intense as to be purged of all bitterness, the tony with which one views the unbelievable and knows it to be true."
"A story so moving and so intense, so blending of humor and insight and pity that the thesis is lost sight of until long after the book is reluctantly closed."
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