Knight's Gambit

246 pages. "Gavin Stevens, that wise and forebearing student of crime and the folkways of the South, is the central characted in William Faulkner's eighteeneth colume. Because Stevens shows the point at which retributive justice ends and compassionate guidance begins, beacause he understands that his people and can make generous allowances for their frailities, he is far more than their chronicles; he lost their interpreter, inquisitor and defender. Around him, William Faulkner has woven his new book in six sextions, each of which is an entity in itself and which together create an integrated patternof many aspects of the mind and manners of the South." "William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. Faulkner's writing is often criticized as being dense, meandering and difficult to understand due to his heavy use of such literary techniques as symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, and especially stream of consciousness. Faulkner was known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence, in contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway. Along with Mark Twain and possibly Tennessee Williams, Faulkner is considered to be one of the most important "Southern writers". He was relatively unknown before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, but his work is now favored by the general public and critics." -- Wikipedia CONTENTS: Smoke; Monk; Hand Upon the Waters; Tomorrow; An Error in Chemistry; Knight's Gambit.