Did GIs create the canon?
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Did GIs create the canon?
William Faulkner only really became popular after the publication of Malcolm Cowley’s The Portable Faulkner, a paperback edition issued to GIs during the war.
True for The Great Gatbsy too.
"almost 155,000 copies were distributed in a special Armed Services Edition, creating a new readership overnight…"
"Stranger Than Fiction — a bold survey of the 20th-century novel," Financial Times, Dec. 3. (Paywall.)
"The world's most misunderstood novel,” BBC, Fb. 9, 2021.