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Faulkner said that 鈥淟ife is motion鈥� and that 鈥淭he aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.鈥� The author’s purpose is, in the light of these statements, to define Faulkner鈥檚 intentions as a novelist and to analyze the more important technical devices used to carry them out. Because the poems and prose sketches Faulkner wrote before Soldiers鈥� Pay contain many clues that help to explain what he did in his later and more artistically successful fiction, they are treated more thoroughly than usual. Professor Adams considers the functional relation of the intentions, structures, and texture of Faulkner鈥檚 work, and shows how the style, imagery, and symbolism support the strategy of making the motion of life visible by stopping it.

Originally published in 1968.

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