Light in August is the final book in my Faulkner set and one, in some ways, grander in scope than the previous volumes. Unlike As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury this story is not beholden to one family. We follow a daisy chain from character to character in narrative that incorporates al...
I'm sure I have a deep set predilection when it comes to Faulkner's greatness but regardless I loved this novel and found it much more accessible than The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
Prior to our beginning this book, my American Literature professor gave us all a nearly half hour lecture on how terribly difficult this book was going to be to read. That was not the most inspiring thing to hear, but I still launched into Light in August hoping that I would both understand and enjo...
There is a lovely passage toward the end of this book that I think encapsulates the whole."Now the final copper light of afternoon fades; now the street beyond the low maples and the low signboard is prepared and empty, framed by the study window like a stage.He can remember how when he was young, a...
Faulkner disappears into so many voices, it's just amazing. Light in August is violent, gritty, caustic (sometimes), and substantial. Its scope of meaty topics is very broad (racism, puritanism, nationalism, alienation) despite circling the events in one small Southern town, told from multiple persp...
As I am getting older I find myself going back to read, or re-read, those books I was supposed to read in school many years ago. Although I majored in English, much of the required reading was over my head, partly because it was the late sixties and I was otherwise occupied and/or impaired. Now, a...
2.5 stars Often when I listen to an audiobook, I wonder whether I'd have felt differently about it had I read it. That's the case here, unfortunately. I'm just not sure how much of a difference. This is my first Faulkner, and while there were aspects that I definitely liked about the book, my overal...
This wasn't one of my favourites of his. But the ending is so good...one thing I will say for Willy is he knew how to end a novel. It kind of made me rethink the whole thing. Much like Nathaniel West's stuff, I think this book needs to be read multiple times to really absorb all there is. Though...
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