Richard wrote: Caldwell, Faulkner, T.S. Stribling and others
were all criticised by those who clung to the romantic vision
of the south as presented in Mitchell's novel.
************ Hmm... I'm not familiar with Stribling, but I
know that Caldwell and Faulkner took heat for their
presentation of the South. Mario (Barthes?) has mentioned how
the reader is an active participant in a book, and this is a
good example. To many Southerners who read the book when it
first came out, the book was a nasty case of rural
muckraking, pointing an accusatory finger at the South for
letting these deplorable conditions exist. A contemporary
reader is more likely to see it as a black comedy portraying
a dispossessed people who have been left out of the American
dream.
TOBACCO ROAD made Modern Library's list of the top 100 novels
written since 1900.
And it looks like Caldwell's getting a movie
adaptation of another book in 2003:
I watched the trailer. It didn't pique my interest.
miker
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