/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2720330]

I want to talk about Faulkner for just a little time

[Anonymous No.2720337]

What book of his should i start with?

[Anonymous No.2720340]

>>2720337
The Sound and the Fury is his most compelling work, but really any of his novels are beyond insightful

[Anonymous No.2720351]

>>2720340
Thanks, heading to the book store tommorow.

[Anonymous No.2720367]

>>2720351
hope it changes your life like it did mine

[Anonymous No.2720369]

>>2720337

Start with As I Lay Dying.

From there, read Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom, Absalom!

These are his most celebrated works, and the only ones I've read, apart from Absalom, which I'm reading right now. This guy's probably my favorite author, he's unbelievably good.

[Anonymous No.2720379]

I'm about half way through The Sound and thd Fury now. I think it's 2deep4me

[Anonymous No.2720380]

>>2720379

It's definitely not babbys first literature. It is amazing though, and worth reading through for the language, if nothing else.

[Anonymous No.2720418]

>>2720380
I just don't understand what the fuck is happening completely. I think it's either supposed to be like that, or I'll have to read it twice.

[Anonymous No.2720424]

>>2720418

It'll take a few re-reads to get a grasp of it, you definitely won't be able to put all the pieces together the first time, if you're anything like me. Finish it and then maybe look up some secondary literature on the work, then read it again. A lot of the book is abstract, intentionally so, the narrative's told through a lens, as it were, of the fragmented minds of its characters, and that makes for an often difficult read. It's worth it, though, if you can push through.

[Anonymous No.2720874]

What did Jewel represent in As I Lay Dying?

[Anonymous No.2720878]

My roach senses are tingling, someone confirm or disprove my suspicion by posting a lengthy quote from one of his works (good or bad).

[Anonymous No.2720903]

He was sixteen. For six years now he had been a man's hunter. For six years now he had heard the best of all talking. It was of the wilderness, the big woods, bigger and older than any recorded document:--of white man fatuous enough to believe he had bought any part of it, of Indian ruthless enough to pretend that any fragment of it had been his to convey.... It was of the men, not white nor black nor red but men, hunters, with the will and hardihood to endure and the humility and skill to survive, and the dogs and the bear and deer juxtaposed and reliefed against it, ordered and compelled by and within the wilderness in the ancient and unremitting contest according to the ancient and unmitigable rules which voided all regrets and brooked no quarter; -- the best game of all, the best of all breathing and forever the best of all listening, the voices quiet and weighty and deliberate for retrospection and exactitude among the concrete trophies -- the racked guns and the heads and skins -- in the libraries of town houses or the offices of plantation houses or (and best of all) in the camps themselves where the intact and still-warm meat yet hung, the men who had slain it sitting before the burning logs on hearths when there were houses and hearths or about the smoky blazing piled wood in front of stretched tarpaulins when there were not.---Falkner, "The Bear"


Jesus christ! His browse is bumpy dog-shit. If I handed this in to my TAs to mark, they would rape me for comma-splice and run on sentences.

Jesus fuck.

Adding his name to the roach list.

[Anonymous No.2720908]

>>2720903
prose* is bumpy dogshit.

[sage No.2721022]

Sound & the Fury is fucking hard but you'll get it by the time you finish it. Absalom is closer to mt. everest/ulysses, approach with caution.
>>2720903
you mean if your TAs presented you with glorious winged beasts of literature you would mark it up and edit it for commas? Fucking plebeian faggot retard, that's exactly what Faulkner's first editors did when they castrated "Flags in the dust." But it's more important to be prim and proper than to say anything real or meaningful, right academyfag?

[Anonymous No.2721040]

Why isn't the roach idiot perma-banned yet?

[Anonymous No.2721058]

>>2721022
>>2721040

[Anonymous No.2721061]

>>2721058
You don't know how to read.

[Anonymous No.2721064]

>>2721022
>calls roach-slayer a "plebeian faggot retard"
>then proceeds to call roach-slayer "academyfag"

Words cannot express...

[Anonymous No.2721075]

>>2721064
Express what? That college kids are often idiots? lol

[Anonymous No.2721079]

>>2721040
Go eat a dick Roach slayer, just because you don't like a writer doesn't mean people can't talk about him.

I think it's actually you sir, who is the roach.

[Anonymous No.2721085]

>>2721064
I'm watching you, roachboy.

[Anonymous No.2721091]

>>2721079
My good man, I want to encourage you to start talking about good literature by discouraging you from reading bad literature...because let's face it: you guys never cease to talk about the same roach authors over and over and over again. It gets annoying, so I'm retaliating.

I want to set an example, as you can see, I post quality:
>>2717695
>>2719632

And I could keep posting quality, but it really irks me when no one else puts any effort into it. I just imagine me working my ass off to entertain you guys, while you sit there being ugly and doing nothing, and not appreciating me.

And just when I think I have had no influence on you guys at all, a couple of you start posting stuff I talked about before, yet gave me no replies or congratulations.

I'm really up for a more friendly and polite atmosphere, but I tried that route to no avail. You guys seem to respond much more readily to slaying than you do kindness.

[Anonymous No.2721097]

>>2721091
the autism is palpable

[Anonymous No.2721098]

>>2721091
>>2721091
>by discouraging you from reading bad literature
What you believe to be bad has no correlation to what anyone else thinks. Stop trying to enforce your tastes on others. This maggotry is going to stop, roachboy.

[Anonymous No.2721107]

>>2721091
lol at all those anons liking your crappy poem, probably only because it rhymes

[Anonymous No.2721108]

>>2721097
>>2721098
Fellow Anon, I now bring to your attention, these roaches.

Who will you side with, the people who have mislead and bored you to death? Or me, the harbinger of quality things, who altruistically entertains you simply because he loves to make you happy?