I’ve read his four major works and here’s how I would rank them:
1. Absalom, Absalom!
2. The Sound and the Fury
3. As I Lay Dying
4. Light in August
but I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. Obviously Faulkner is famous for his experimentation but it never gets in the way of an interesting story, which is what makes him fun as frick to read. Which of his other books should I read next?
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I would recommend next you check out the collection (taken as a whole) Go Down, Moses which is at the same tier as Absalom and Sound and the Fury IMO.
A great secondary work on Faulkner is Faulkner, Mississippi by Edouard Glissant
Thanks. I also hear a lot about the Snopes trilogy: how would you compare that to his most acclaimed works?
Have not read it yet so can't say
It's good but the middle volume kinda sags. The last volume was his penultimate novel and feels like a valedictorian. Then he wrote his actual final novel which is a comfy road trip comedy.
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>Which of his other books should I read next?
His collected short stories, the Snopes trilogy, and also Sanctuary . I want to read his detective stuff but I don't know if it's good
Oh and also The Wild Palms
what detective stuff?
Avoid. Can't write for shit.
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Oh, the irony.
Kill youselves cucks.
no u
Haha you mad
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>1. Absalom, Absalom!
I wholeheartedly agree. It had everything Faulkner in it. I use the word indefatigable as a result of this novel. Thanks, Bill.
>As I Lay Dying
>Sound and Fury
Love them
>Absalom, Absalom
>Light in August
Tried, but couldn't stomach them. Faulkner unleashed his full powers in those but I preferred the restraint of the former two.
Light in August is pretty straightforward compared to As I Lay Dying and TS&TF
Narrative and stylistically, sure, but every word in Sound and Dying count. Light felt very turgid to me. Couldn't get into it. Personal failing, I know, but you can't love all of them.
I felt the same way besides the Joe Christmas parts those were good.
I could not get into Sanctuary at all but absolutely love the other big 3.
Only thing Faulkner experimented with is ways of reaching the top shelf.
Absalom, Absalom! be like
>fever dream opening chapter
>insanity for the middle 90% of each chapter
>profound storytelling told at the beginning 5% and ending 5% of each chapter that would be run of the mill slop if not parsed out through the fever dream that was the middle 90%
probably the greatest Southern novel ever written, though just behind Moby Dick in terms of the American Novel
>Unidentified participant: Sir, when you are reading for your own pleasure, which authors do you consistently return to?
>William Faulkner: The ones I came to love when I was eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. Moby-Dick, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, a lot of Conrad, Dickens. I read Don Quixote every year.
But which translation of Don Quixote did he read?
Ormsby, maybe? It was popular back then from what I’ve read
Norton Critical Editions published a revision of Ormsby's translation in 1981 that can be purchased used.
Review from Amazon
Seems like that seals the translation deal for don quixote
i genuinely cant take his forced cruel southern archetypes and self importance seriously. the experimental structures also sort of force him to be very in your face about exposition. his novels are way better than his awful short stories though.
hemingway is better
as toilet paper, yea.
Both are toilet paper
Faulkner is great. Closest thing America has to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is part of the American literary heritage as we were an English colony prior to the Revolution.
America’s own Shakespeare, I meant. Shakespeare is a universal.
Lol. Faulkner is garbage for manchildren. That's like comparing Joyce to Tom Clancy. Frick off Dumbass.
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have a nice day delusional cucks.
wouldn't you ruther have some bananas
and then anon was a fish
Faulkner is an artist, Hemingway is an entertainer.
Faulkner filtered people so hard that he didn't win his Nobel prize until a 'collected works' edition was published.