- Paperback
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (February 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0871401339
- ISBN-13: 978-0871401335
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Opening in New Orleans, the story proceeds to a voyage among the Florida cays. William Faulkner also wrote "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying", "Sanctury", "Light in August" and "Absalom, Absalom".
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THE Nausikaa lay in the basin-a nice thing, with her white, matronly hull and mahogany-and-brass superstructure and the yacht club flag at the peak. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Is what it is.,
By S. K. Figler (Cambria, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mosquitoes (Paperback)
Mosquitoes is not what one would expect of Faulkner, which should not diminish one's enjoyment of the story. It is humorous and satirical. Absent Faulkner's typical familial, historical, and cultural baggage, his characters in Mosquitoes still agonize, which makes them interesting. Let Faulkner surprise you. Enjoy the characters he gives us here and their comedic byplay. Absorb what he has to say about art and writing, in particular. You won't get it anywhere else. Try not to compare Mosquitoes to his other work; it is what it is, a slow boat loaded with pleasure.
5.0 out of 5 stars
intellectual mosquitoes get their lives by sucking others id,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mosquitoes (Paperback)
A deep and continuous source. Reflects the popular misconception of what it means to live the highly creative life of an artist. Title refers to Confucious quote that intellectual mosquitoes get their lives by sucking others ideas.play for mosquitoes and everyone in between a mosquito my libido
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Yoknapatawpha, not for me,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mosquitoes (Paperback)
This was not a bad not a bad book. I had to say that initially. For some other authors, this book could have been their masterpiece. The problem though, is that this is a Faulkner book. Faulkner reinvented the use of the English language in all the Yoknapatawpha books. The problem is that when you compare something as compicated as a Yoknapatawpha novel to anything else, it has to fall short. The plots of other Faulkner books are so dense and full of sybolism. Mosquitoes is not dense. It has a very mundane story about people on a boat. This, like other Faulkner novels revolves around the nature of human beings and their interactions. This novel is a more dialectical one in comparison to some of he other novels of his. We do not have the dark humor here that there is in a novel such as AsI Lay.... The epilogue redeems the novel with some of the dense writingthat Faulkner is notorious for. Read this after you read several other Faulkner novels.
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