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Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:24:45 2017 No.9274293 [Reply] [Original]

Honest opinion of Faulkner?
Never been to /lit/ pls don't judge if this is a stupid question.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:25:49 2017 No.9274295 Undeniably brilliant. Start with As I Lay Dying. Reminded me of a better The Waves, though The Waves certainly has its appeal as well.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:26:17 2017 No.9274297 Faulkner? I've never met 'er!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 18:27:12 2017 No.9274302 >>9274297 Gog em

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:40:51 2017 No.9274521 >>9274293 Like most great writers, he's more than he seems. An easy Faulkner noir is Pylon; a great relatively classic-style Faulkner is The Hamlet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:44:13 2017 No.9274533 Rivals Shakespeare in his grasp of the human condition.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:47:15 2017 No.9274544 >>9274293 THE greatest.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:48:41 2017 No.9274552 >>9274293 Second best american.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 19:49:24 2017 No.9274555 >>9274295 glad I'm not the only one who sees the Faulkner/Woolf similarity >>9274293 I don't like using the word "exceptional" but he's pretty fucking exceptional. one of the greatest modernists for sure

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 20:08:56 2017 No.9274605 File: 94 KB, 620x410, IMG_4211.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My favorite post modern after Ulysses and dfw

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 21 20:09:28 2017 No.9274606 >>9274293 garbage

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:23:06 2017 No.9275617 >>9274605 >Faulkner >Postmodernist H O L Y S H I T G E T IT T O G E T H E R

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:25:12 2017 No.9275627 >>9274293 He's pretty damn good. Unlike most people, I was not a huge a fan of As I Lay Dying (although it certainly wasn't bad), but I loved The Sound and the Fury.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:36:13 2017 No.9275656 >>9274533 agreed. would call him the finest american writer if melville hadn't written moby-dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:38:28 2017 No.9275660 faulkner is fucking dope son

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:39:09 2017 No.9275663 I say I'm better at writing in a retard's perspectve

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:40:40 2017 No.9275665 >>9274295 >>9274533 >>9274544 >>9274552 >>9274555 >>9275656 >>9275660 rerolling these opinions because I agree

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:44:12 2017 No.9275677 absalom, absalom is one of the finest pieces of american literature of all time--I was rocked

Anonymous Wed Mar 22 00:44:39 2017 No.9275682

>>9275656

to expand a little, the book that got me into "serious literature" was East of Eden and the whole exploration of family in that book really blew my mind at the time. a few years later I read Absalom, Absalom! and realized that Steinbeck was fingerpainting comparatively (no h8 still love him). if you haven't read it yet make sure to you do soon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 22 02:34:13 2017 No.9275990 File: 94 KB, 594x536, faulkner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9274293 he's a big guy

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