/lit/ - Literature

Was William Faulkner familiar with Wittgenstein? Every time I read Addie's chapter in As I Lay Dying I feel like I'm reading a fictional account of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Besides his four major novels what else by Faulkner should one have read? I've heard that Soldier's Play and Mosquitoes are shit, that he wrote Sanctuary only for the money but it's worth reading regardless, that Pylon and A Fable he wrote only for the money and they're to be avoided, that Go Down, Moses! is good. Have I heard right? And what about Sartoris, The Unvanquished, The Wild Palms, Intruder in the Dust and the Snopes trilogy?

I have a question about the usage of stream of consciousness in the novels of William Faulkner.
I've read AILD, TSatF and A,A! and especially the first two (but also the latter to a lesser extent) prominently feature this technique heavily. But I'm under the impression that his other novels (with the exception, maybe, of Light in August) are far more conventional than the aforementioned works.
So are there other novels by him in which he employs this technique a lot or is my impression correct? What's about The Snopes Trilogy for example?

Corncobby chronicler or genius?

Which book of his do you recommend starting with?

I had to read excerpts of The Sound and the Fury for a class but beyond that, it's all new to me

Is the ability to write masterful prose something that can be learned? I just finished The Sound and The Fury and tbqh I don't think even a hundred years of daily training would be enough in order for me to write something like this

So I own the following Faulkner books:

> Absalom, Absalom!
> As I Lay Dying
> The Sound and the Fury
> Light in August

Which should I start with?