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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1578)	11/12/1999 10:49:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

Well, sure, I'm for Proust, partially because Neo would not admit him to HIS list. <g> (Gotta be "alternative" here.) But we will have to make a case for his world-wide influence. Very influential in the English-speaking world, but I know he bombed in Russia, for example. (But the Russians still LOVE Jack London! And somebody called Mayne Reid <sp?>.) Faulkner? Ummm...I already admitted ONE non-favorite (Hemingway). Funny thing, I personally don't like American writers much -- at least, not their novels. I wonder why they are so much better at the short story than at the novel. (Perhaps because they can stay sober long enough to finish a story properly, but not long enough to do a good job on a novel? Has anyone written a book about "Alcohol and the American Writer"?) In any event, I vowed I would not let my own personal tastes interfere with my judgment about influence. So, what about Faulkner's "influence"? Joan