Mosquitoes

✍ Scribed by Faulkner, William

• Book ID: 108993390
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 1926
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 186 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Over the course of a four-day yacht trip, an assortment of guests goes through the motions of socializing with their wealthy host while pursuing their own disparate goals. As the guests are separated into artists and non-artists, youth and widows, males and females, Mosquitoes explores gender and societal roles, sexual tension, and unrequited love as Faulkner delves into what it means to be an artist.

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.

Faulkner' s second novel, Mosquitoes was first published in 1927, but did not receive any critical response until his literary reputation was well-established.