“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
As Faulkner accepted his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, he made it clear that present writing was in a predicament. Writing by now had drifted away from internal feelings and issues concerning personal conflict. Instead writers focused on modern quandaries and harsh realities that were occurring in their era. True literature for a while for Faulkner had been lost and disoriented from the writing that once pertained to the problems of the human heart and spirit. Deep issues were in fact being avoided during the transition of classic literature into contemporary view. While the fear of retrogressing back to classic literature occupied writers in that time, Faulkner stressed the importance of relearning the old tools of good writing which are, exploring into human conflict.
As Faulkner accepted his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, he made it clear that present writing was in a predicament. Writing by now had drifted away from internal feelings and issues concerning personal conflict. Instead writers focused on modern quandaries and harsh realities that were occurring in their era. True literature for a while for Faulkner had been lost and disoriented from the writing that once pertained to the problems of the human heart and spirit. Deep issues were in fact being avoided during the transition of classic literature into contemporary view. While the fear of retrogressing back to classic literature occupied writers in that time, Faulkner stressed the importance of relearning the old tools of good writing which are, exploring into human conflict.
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