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What does /lit/ think of Faulkner?

>> No.3179649

>>3179603
garbage, if not for a small cabal of disingenuous literature professors Faulkner would be in the trash bin of history where he belongs

>> No.3179663

if there is such a thing as divine inspiration, faulkner is proof, not king james

>> No.3179681

Vardaman's sections of As I Lay Dying are some of my favorite passages. The voice Faulkner gives to him is brilliant

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3179701

>>3179663
>>3179649
Welp.

>> No.3179747

I really hated reading The Sound and the Fury and thought it was all a collosal con job until sometime in Book III the Jason section when all the puzzle piecs began falling into place and I realized just how intricately plotted, detailed and brilliant it was. I think it's one of the high points of modernist literature and THE high point of modernist American literature.

As I Lay Dying and Light in August are worth a read as well.

Absalom, Absalom ---- I don't know, the Sutpen's story is very interesting and what it says about the south and about America as a hole. But Jesus do you really need that many commas, semi colons and adjectives? Just my two cents, I know I'm outvoted by the critics on this one.

>> No.3179752

>>3179747
as a whole not a hole. Interesing freudian slip though.