The Reivers (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: May, 1905
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Values, Children, Politics, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Manners or customs, Native Americans or American Indians, Storytelling, Tennessee, Mississippi, Rivers or waterways, Small-town life, Ethics
- Locales: Memphis, TN, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
Places Discussed
Jefferson. Seat of William Faulkner’s imaginary Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha that is Lucius’s hometown. Jefferson is patterned after Faulkner’s own home of Oxford in northern Mississippi. Early in the novel Boon drives Lucius’s grandfather and the family past the typical small- town livery stable, which the advent of automobiles would eventually render obsolete, and then proceeds proudly through the town square.
Because the author chose the adult Lucius as retrospective narrator of the events of the novel, readers learn that Lucius’s...
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