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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
I don't quite love this 1936 novel, but I can understand why so many people do. It's a layered and complex narrative that demands a close reading, and author William Faulkner's run-on prose is perfectly pitched to capture the slow crumbling of its central family, their manor house, and the more general antebellum way of life. That deterioration is the sign of a true southern gothic, and although the exact chain of events isn't completely clear to me after an initial sifting through of its various unreliable narrators, the sweltering tone of this tragedy is certainly one that lingers.
[Major content warning for nineteenth-century racism and sexism and the frequent use of the n-word even by ostensibly more enlightened characters.]
[Major content warning for nineteenth-century racism and sexism and the frequent use of the n-word even by ostensibly more enlightened characters.]