Small drainage canals

the Small drainage canals (in English The Reivers ), appeared in 1962, is the Romance last of William Faulkner. It obtained the Prix Pulitzer for a work of fiction in 1963. Faulkner had already obtained this price in 1955 for Parabole ( has Fable ), which does one of the two only authors of them to be rewarded more once.

With the difference of several of its former works, this novel is direct and does not resort to complicated literary techniques. It is also merry. This is why the Small drainage canals is often ignored by the exégètes of Faulkner or is regarded as a minor work. Faulkner had stated to want to finish its literary career by writing the delivers of gold of the county of Yoknapatawpha . It is probable that the small drainage canals constitutes this “gold book. ”

the small drainage canals was adapted to the cinema in 1969 in a film carried out by Mark Rydell with Steve McQueen and Rupert Crosse.

Synopsis

Caution A young boy named Lucius accompanies a family friend named Boon Hogganbeck with Memphis, where Boon hopes to court a named prostitute Everbe Corinthia (Corrie Miss). As Boon does not have any means to go to Memphis, it steals the car of the grandfather of Lucius, the first car of the County of Yoknapatawpha (the history proceeds in the years 1910). They discover that Ned, a black which works with Boon in the stables of the grandfather, was encrusted with them. When they arrive at Memphis, Boon and Lucius remain in the brothel while Ned disappears in the part of the city where the blacks reside. Soon Ned returns: it exchanged the car against a chaval of race.

The remainder of the history realate attempts at Ned to involve the horse in order to gain enough money to repair its family and the court that made Boon with Miss Corrie. Lucius, young person, rich person and until preserved there, quickly make the training of the life with Memphis. It comes into contact for the first time with the back of the company. Most of the novel tells the will of Lucius to reconcile its idealized vision of the life and the reality with which he is confronted during this voyage. It meets the nephew of Corrie, a boy a little older than him, which plays the part of development and incarnates several of the cheappest aspects of the human being: it degrades women, does not respect anybody, made blackmail with the owner of the brothel, steals it, and blasphemy.

Thereafter Lucius, more than ever the white knight, fights with him to defend the honor of Corrie. It if is touched by heat to defend it which it decides to become an honest woman.

The novel reaches its apogee when Lucius assembles the horse (called Coppermine, but Lightning by Ned) in an illicit race. Coppermine is a fast horse, which just likes to run behind the other horses to see them constantly. Ned convinces it to make a final sprint to gain the race by suborning it with a sardine. Whereas they gain the race, the grandfather of Lucius shows himself. This Ned time does not make the blow of sardine and Coppermine loses. Ned bet against Coppermine in this race and the poor black stableman can thus obtain the best of the rich person white grandfather.

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