/lit/ - Literature

Blood Meridian is a solid novel worth talking about. I haven't read it in a few years and I don't give a fuck what reddit or some faggot Youtuber says about it. More Blood Meridian discussion is welcome regardless of the source; this is a literature board. If an anon wants to peddle some retarded shit as an interpretation of the novel hopefully some anon more familiar with it than is willing to have a discussion about it.
Which brings me to my next point, who is one of Cormac McCarthy's major influences and one of the best writers to ever pick up a pen. Read William Faulkner.

What makes Faulkner so revered by Latin Americans? From Rulfo (author of Pedro Paramo) to Borges to Marquez to Bolaño, he seems to be as important or admired in Latin American literature as he is in Southern literature.

>muh sasprilluh
The Sound and the Fury is the greatest novel of the 20th century, and probably beyond. It's so memorable and so quotable. Faulkner's treatment of themes hits you like a jet at mach speed. Discuss Faulkner.

>The train was stopped when I waked and I raised the shade and looked out. The car was blocking a road crossing, where two white fences came down a hill and then sprayed outward and downward like part of the skeleton of a horn, and there was a nigger on a mule in the middle of the stiff ruts, waiting for the train to move. How long he had been there I didn't know, but he sat straddle of the mule, his head wrapped in a piece of blanket, as if they had been built there with the fence and the road, or with the hill, carved out of the hill itself, like a sign put there saying You are home again. He didn't have a saddle and his feet dangled almost to the ground. The mule looked like a rabbit.

How did an alcohol dropout hick have such a clear understanding of the tragedy inherent in life and mankind when self-deception and denial about it is so universal?

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bump for Faulkner thread, usually there's some pretty good discussion in these

the sound and the fury
tomboys and soles

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good post.