/lit/ - Literature

>I will refer to the Earth as "fecund" for the 12,475th time. That will make a great novel!

Sorry, but this pales in comparison to his other work. If you prefer this novel to "The Sound and the Fury", you are a bad person

Just finished reading Light in August. I finally completed reading Faulkner's major works, and I think he's the great American writer simply because I can't think of an American with five masterpieces to their name. Faulkner has The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, and The Unvanquished. One can even mention The Mansion.

I thought I read the best Southern Gothic novel when I read O'Connor's Violent Bear it Away, but this also takes the cake. This is probably Faulkner's best work with regard to characterization, with such vivid outcasts featured throughout the novel. Joe Christmas is also an inscrutable, well-made, damned character.

Any thoughts about Light in August?

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>Uses the word apotheosis at least 5 times in 60 pages, mentally note it every time.

What word do authors use too much?