i keep hearing that hes one of the best ever. but i cant stand the portrayal of southern dialect in speech, never mind writing. should i stick with it? i mean i have to because it's for a class, but does it get better? will it click?
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it's cringe
any dialect portrayal for that matter
This is AP Lit Faulkner. Sack up and read his holy trinity: Go Down Moses, The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom Absalom.
Then read Glissant's book on Faulkner
i have to read this one. id like to try another one at another time but i have to read this one at the moment.
What happens in this novel? Like some man lie on the ground and die?
>portrayal
Dude that’s how we actually talk
This, OP is a yankee and should be reading some gay like Melville or Whitman
southerners are hicks
The South has classes like everyone else, not everyone is a poor methhead.
>t.
Southern Gothic sucks in general because of how kitschy it is. Flannery O'Connor is the exception.
What makes it kitsch? Flannery O’Connor is good but all her stories are about the exact same thing and the theme doesn’t even really make sense
If you think Faulkner is “kitschy” we did not read the same author…
You have never read a single novel by William Faulkner.
o'connor is grotesque, not gothic.
Read Absalom Absalom. There are very few lines of dialogue with heavy dialect.
read Glissant's book on Faulkner
it's still some of the best literary documentations of southern vernacular that you can still get. AILD was the first novel to make me cry and is still some of the best text's top capture white trash so accurately and delicately. highly recommend you read carson mccullers or flannery o'connor if you're still too yankee to comprehend what faulkner's getting at
if you get filtered by faulkner because of the dialogue, there's no saving you
Faulkner is a poor writer.
This
filtered
He had no money, you rich homosexual. Stop poor shaming.
read Absalom, Absalom instead of AILD, LIA, or TSATF if it's your first Faulkner
>muh southern gothic
Stop watching cringe youtube videos about Faulkner and read the books instead.