Mosquitoes (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Novel of ideas
- Time of Work: August, 1925
- Setting: New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain
- 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
Characters Discussed
Dawson Fairchild, a successful novelist and the natural leader of a group of artists cruising aboard the yacht Nausikaa. He is from a provincial Midwestern lower- middle-class family and confronts life and art with burly optimism, though he finds the modern world peopled with “women too masculine to conceive, men too feminine to beget” great poetry. Having admittedly lost his own first sheer infatuation with words, he writes prose now instead of poetry and devoutly maintains that “art” is anything consciously well done. Calling himself “a...
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