Rereading this was definitely the right decision. On a second reading, a book that had been knotty and confusing, became crystal clear -- perfectly constructed... as Faulkner proved actually to be holding all of the threads firmly within in his hands. The book IS constructed like an onion, with Faul...
A story about how stories are told. Four people give their versions of the life of a Mississippi planter, and the reader is left to come up with the fifth version by trying to make sense of the conflicting accounts.
Have hit the half-way mark. I will finish this, I will. And then I will read the student notes. *edited*Oh, my God. Oh. My. God. You see first I thought, well, obviously Bon is part Negro, that is why he can't marry white Judith. Then I thought, no, I'm wrong, Bon is Sutpen's son and that's why he c...
An enigmatic, nameless nightmare crawls silently out of the southern swamps and declares itself gentry. With stark and horrible inevitability, it creates its legacy in the same image as the mud from which it came, black, masked, impenetrable, yet reaching into a horror-stricken and helpless communit...
I resisted this book strenuously for about the first two-thirds of it. It's the first full-length Faulkner I've read, and I couldn't see why my ear was being abused by those godawful long, breatless, endlessly parenthetical sentences. Nor could I see why I should have to go to the considerable troub...
From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that--a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when ...
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