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What's your favorite novel by William "Corncob" Faulkner? I'm personally an advocate of Absalom, Absalom!

>> No.7901610

The Sound and the Fury, the Quentin parts especially.

>> No.7901622

Absalom, Absalom, you whore

>> No.7901638

>>7901602
I've only read The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, but SOTF blew me away when I read it in school

>> No.7901682

Absalom, Absalom

>> No.7901738

As I Lay Dying, but The Unvanquished is one of his more underrated ones as well

>> No.7902038

>>7901738
>They have beat you, Drusilla

;_;

>> No.7902254

>>7901602
>Absalom, Absalom!
Yep. It doesn't get much better than the chapter in which Wash kills Sutpen

>> No.7902262
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7902262

>tfw nabokov plagiarized the his corncob epithet

>> No.7903789

My trip is TSATF, but my favorite novel from him is Absalom, Absalom! It's like he distilled his complex art and wrote both an ode and an elegy to the South he knew.

I was really confused at first, but when everything slowly, gradually, painstakingly made sense by the end of the novel I was just blown away. All the peregrinations, all the circumlocutions, they were there for the purpose of pulling off such a masterful circulation of the story: it ends where it begins.

>> No.7903823

>>7902038
>that paragraph about the train tracks and what it represented

>> No.7903837

Call me pleb, but I only read sanctuary (thought it was thrash) and Absalom, Absalom, which I thought was boring. What I'm a missing? Eurocuck that likes lovecraft, Poe, Pynchon, DFW

>> No.7903838

>>7903837
Heart

>> No.7905031

>>7901602
The Bear is the best thing he's ever written and the best thing I've ever read

>> No.7905231

>>7902038
I absolutely loved The Unvanquished. Drusilla was this heroic bitch from hell who loved being manly, and Bayard was the new South who wanted peace beyond the cycle of violence.

I still fucking loved the unresolved sexual tension between Bayard and Drusilla, though.

It's one of my favorites.

>> No.7905240

>>7903837
The Hamlet isn't too fun, but The Town and The Mansion in the Snopes trilogy feature this wonderful female character named Linda Snopes.

I like Gavin because I aspire to be both as morally upright and as virtuous as him. He turned down two hot women in love with him just because he couldn't face himself if he took advantage of them.

The Mansion was great closure to the insidious Snopes family. Like kills like.

>> No.7905614

>>7905231
Does he have any other works similar to it? I really liked the structure, how it was sort of a hybrid between a short story collection and a novel.

>> No.7907181

>>7905614
Go Down Moses, I think.

Not as good as Unvanquished though.

>> No.7907186

>>7905240
go to bed john

>> No.7907187

>>7901602
Absalom, Absalom!

>> No.7907191

>>7903837
>What I'm a missing?
Good taste

>> No.7907195

>>7903837
>thrash
Either good taste, or, maybe he's just not for you.

>> No.7907207

wild palms

>> No.7907214

>>7905614
Go Down Moses is similar. Also, The Wild Palms is an interweaving of two separate stories, one tragic and one comedic, which is interesting as hell. Would recommend.

>> No.7907221

>>7907207
>>7907214
Hivemind. Also, to respond the OP, The Sound and the Fury is and, I suspect, will always be my favorite of his.