Light in August (The Corrected Text)
by William Faulkner
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Author: William FaulknerCollaborator: Joseph Blotner
Editor: Noel Polk
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1990-10-01
ISBN: 0679732268
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Vintage International/Random House
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Book Review: Light in August (The Corrected Text)
Summary: 5 Stars
The American paperback editions of Faulkner published by Vintage are far more readable and user-friendly than the British editions due to font size, layout, page size, gutter width, paper and general design. This is a wonderful book which should be a pleasure to read. My one concern, and I am not alone in expressing it, is that the 'corrected' text is to some extent a reversion to a draft that Faulkner himself (as I understand it) agreed to change in the light of editorial suggestions which, in many cases, he accepted as improvements. To correct back to an editorial stage before the involvement of an editor is an odd editorial practice and, when a writer has been as tactfully and agreeably edited as Faulkner, rather a doubtful one. A parallel text, or a fuller description of the logic of the Polk emendation, would have been useful, for the general as well as the specialist reader. All the same, a wonderful edition to read.
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