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Mosquitoes is a satiric novel by the American author William Faulkner. The book was first published in 1927 by the New York-based publishing house Boni & LiverightEdwin McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript is Bought,” New York Times, October 10, 1987, Read More..

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Description	Mosquitoes is a satiric novel by the American author William Faulkner. The book was first published in 1927 by the New York-based publishing house Boni & LiverightEdwin McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript is Bought,” New York Times, October 10, 1987, accessed May 12, 2012. ProQuest. and is the author’s second novel. Sources conflict regarding whether Faulkner wrote Mosquitoes during his time living in Paris, beginning in 1925McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript.” or in Pascagoula, Mississippi in the summer of 1926.John Earl Bassett, “Mosquitoes: Toward the Self Image of an Artist.” The Southern Literary Journal (Spring, 1980): 50. It is, however, widely agreed upon that not only its setting, but also its content clearly reference Faulkner’s personal involvement in the New Orleans creative community where he spent time before moving to France.McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript.”The city of New Orleans and a yacht on Lake Pontchartrain are the two primary settings for the novel. Beginning and ending in the city, the story follows a diverse cast of artists, aesthetes, and adolescents as they embark on a four-day excursion aboard the motorized yacht, the Nausikaa, owned by a wealthy patron of the arts.The novel is organized into six sections: a prologue which introduces the characters, four body sections each of which documents a day of the yacht trip hour-by-hour, and an epilogue which returns the characters, changed or unchanged, to their lives off the boat.
Description	Mosquitoes is a satiric novel by the American author William Faulkner. The book was first published in 1927 by the New York-based publishing house Boni & LiverightEdwin McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript is Bought,” New York Times, October 10, 1987, accessed May 12, 2012. ProQuest. and is the author’s second novel. Sources conflict regarding whether Faulkner wrote Mosquitoes during his time living in Paris, beginning in 1925McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript.” or in Pascagoula, Mississippi in the summer of 1926.John Earl Bassett, “Mosquitoes: Toward the Self Image of an Artist.” The Southern Literary Journal (Spring, 1980): 50. It is, however, widely agreed upon that not only its setting, but also its content clearly reference Faulkner’s personal involvement in the New Orleans creative community where he spent time before moving to France.McDowell, “Faulkner Manuscript.”The city of New Orleans and a yacht on Lake Pontchartrain are the two primary settings for the novel. Beginning and ending in the city, the story follows a diverse cast of artists, aesthetes, and adolescents as they embark on a four-day excursion aboard the motorized yacht, the Nausikaa, owned by a wealthy patron of the arts.The novel is organized into six sections: a prologue which introduces the characters, four body sections each of which documents a day of the yacht trip hour-by-hour, and an epilogue which returns the characters, changed or unchanged, to their lives off the boat.

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