Efforts at Truth by Nicholas Mosley

Author:Nicholas Mosley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

And I commented on this:

From the first he [Faulkner] has been a novelist who writes not only about sequences of events but about how people experience them, influence them, understand them. His complex style is an attempt to express this: from the first, too, he has gone beyond narrative description into a mingling, or juxtaposition, of things that are happening, people’s thoughts about these happenings, and people talking about them. There is also this polarity, or writing in several dimensions, in the structure of each book as a whole; different parts of the book, sometimes describing slightly differently the same events, are told through the eyes of different characters … By these techniques he does achieve an extraordinary sense of the complexity and mystery of life as it is experienced, in contrast to a narrative style which remains outside.

He achieves also a sense of the ‘verities’ which he says are the only things worth writing about. If you want to describe honour and sacrifice you have to assume free will. If you want to assume this you have to have a dimensional space (in writing as in life as it were) to move within. The writers of a straight narrative style are often those who seem implicitly to deny free will. Faulkner’s very technique is part of his belief about man and literature.

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