Mosquitoes (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Plot: Satiric novel of ideas
- Time of Work: August, 1925
- Setting: New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain
- Principal Characters: Dawson Fairchild, Mrs. Maurier, Ernest Talliaferro, Patricia (Pat) Robyn, Theodore Robyn, Gordon, Julius Kauffman, Eva Wiseman, Mark Frost, Dorothy Jameson, Major Ayers, Jenny Steinbauer, Pete Ginotta, David West
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Problem novel
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Novelists, New Orleans, Wit or humor, Sculpting or sculptors, Mosquitoes, Yachts or yachting
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Lake Pontchartrain, LA
The Novel
In Mosquitoes, William Faulkner draws a satiric portrait of the New Orleans artistic community of 1925 while working out his own theories about art and the artist. As a “novel of ideas” in Aldous Huxley’s sense of the phrase, Mosquitoes contains much talk and little action. The novel’s plan is simple: Mrs. Maurier, a wealthy New Orleans socialite and “patron of the arts,” gathers aboard her motorized yacht Nausikaa an awkward assortment of artists, intellectuals, and adolescents for a talk-filled cruise on Louisiana’s Lake...
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