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| | Commentary Magazine - The God-Seeker, by Sinclair Lewis; Intruder in the Dust, by William Faulkner; The Grand Design, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | A QUALITY of programmatic earnestness, pessimistic in Don Passos, cocky in Lewis, rhetorical in Faulkner, distinguishes these novels from most of the earlier work of their authors. |
 | | ...THIS attitude is revealed in the incongruities of Intruder in the Dust: a portrait of Lucas Beauchamp, the elderly Negro who is nearly lynched, as a dignified, dispassionate, coldly heroic individual, against the use of the vulgarity "Sambo" to designate the whole Negro people... |
 | | ...READING The God-Seeker in conjunction with William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, one is struck by the fact that Lewis opens and closes his hero's quest for religion with the smuggling of a fugitive slave... |
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