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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
I don't think that I can say anything meaningful about Faulkner or Absalom, Absalom! that hasn't already been said.
His prose is dense, convoluted, repetitive and demands that one pay close attention.
I very much appreciate the structure which reveals plot in bits and pieces, fits and starts, toing and froing in a kind of jumbled order.
Themes are familiar to Faulkner readers: irrational attitudes (feelings, beliefs) on race, the doom effected by the actions taken as a result of those attitudes, stoic endurance, futility. It reads as Southern Gothic, in some ways a pro-longed retelling of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher.
Highly recommended, but it's not the place I'd start with a dive into Faulkner. I'd suggest that a body start with The Unvanquished, follow that up with Intruder in the Dust (to get acclimated to the prose style), then begin to take on more of the novels, perhaps in order of publication.
His prose is dense, convoluted, repetitive and demands that one pay close attention.
I very much appreciate the structure which reveals plot in bits and pieces, fits and starts, toing and froing in a kind of jumbled order.
Themes are familiar to Faulkner readers: irrational attitudes (feelings, beliefs) on race, the doom effected by the actions taken as a result of those attitudes, stoic endurance, futility. It reads as Southern Gothic, in some ways a pro-longed retelling of Poe's Fall of the House of Usher.
Highly recommended, but it's not the place I'd start with a dive into Faulkner. I'd suggest that a body start with The Unvanquished, follow that up with Intruder in the Dust (to get acclimated to the prose style), then begin to take on more of the novels, perhaps in order of publication.