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Why did William Faulkner write Mosquitoes?

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William Faulkner wrote his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), as a satirical attack on the literary scene in New Orleans. The work includes portrayals of identifiable individuals from that community and is best understood as a declaration of his artistic independence.1