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ralowe 's review for:
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
sharon patricia holland, edouard glissant and hortense spillers oh yeah and fred moten brought me to faulkner but then left me there. my impression from other faulkner readers-- or really a better description is just other people who did or once or twice or had to read faulkner-- is this his other stuff is not a stream of consciousness mess. that's what i get for jumping around the canon without a trusty roadmap. but the loss of roadmap, compass or complete genealogy chart (timeline on last page, tho) is what immerses you helplessly in the traumatic gothic psychological mess of america-- not just the south-- and i'm fourstarring for the moments that are truly brilliant. but chattel slavery is still a downer and although this book is allegedly this well-read american classical monument practically nothing in the mainstream really reflects the evidence of reading, so. what's missing?