William Faulkner, Mosquitoes

Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1927

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Mosquitoes

(New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927), published 30 April 1927, is the second of Faulkner’s nineteen novels. Like

Pylon

(1935) and

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

(originally published as

The Wild Palms

[1939]),

Mosquitoes

may be called a New Orleans novel, since the story takes place in and near that city, reflecting the impact Faulkner’s short stay among the New Orleans community of artists and writers during the first six months of 1925 had on his creative imagination.

While in Paris in late 1925, Faulkner started a novel titled “Mosquito” but left it unfinished to work on other projects, in particular two false starts at a novel about a young painter, “Elmer” and “A Portrait of Elmer Hodge”. After his first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, was published in February 1926,

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "Mosquitoes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 July 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3510, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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