Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
 

Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)

by William Faulkner

The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."


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Another Southern Gothic work of genius from William Faulkner, with particular emphasis on the Gothic. Cracking the cover of “Absalom, Absalom!” is like stepping into a haunted house, so full of ghosts is this novel, which prefigures “Citizen Kane” in the way it burrows through murky layers of history, gossip, and lore to illuminate the mystery of the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, powerful plantation owner and patriarch of Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner’s prose was...

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  • EmilyRuth78

    emilyruth78 said:

    This is my favorite novel of all time. It's complex; it's full of the usual characters of the decrepit old South that Faulkner attends to; and it's surprising, even on multiple readings.

    posted Thursday, July 12 2007

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