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Just finished The Sound and the Fury. not quite sure what I thought of it, Gonna some time to let it digest. I haven't read Faulkner before but this was certainly one of the more difficult novels I've read in quite some time.

What did you get out of it /lit/?

>> No.7479900

It's one of my favorites OP. Read Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn." I think there are parallels.

>> No.7479904

>>7479895
the great american novel

>> No.7479916

>>7479895
I always thought of it as being an Allegory for the cultural deterioration of Post-Reconstruction era Dixie but that's just me

>> No.7479924

>>7479895

Probably not what you're going to want to hear after just finishing it but I didn't appreciate much myself until a second reas through. It's one of my favourite novels.

>> No.7479971

>>7479895
one of my favorite books.
the first two sections were absolutely phenomenal, the last two were much less gripping for me but i can understand their necessity.

>> No.7480017

>>7479895
i just finished it yesterday, too! Not at alllll what I expected from the things I'd heard. Anyway, I definitely like aspects of it, and I found relatively easy to follow once you understand the mindset it's trying to induce. Will re-read it in a few months and see if I make up my mind.

>> No.7480881

>>7479895
You can understand it better when you realize it's not so much about the story but instead about how the story is told.

>> No.7480908

faulkner was an idiot and the book was all fluff, signifying nothing