"Absalom, Absalom " has long been regarded as one of William
Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is,
on one level, 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."
On another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls the
entire Sutpen family and that tragedy's legacy that continues well
into the twentieth century and beyond. The novel's intricate,
demanding prose style, and its haunting dramatization of the
South's intricate, demanding history make it a masterpiece of
twentieth-century American literature.
"Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom " offers a close examination
and interpretation of the novel. Here difficult words and cultural
terms that might prove to be a problem for general readers are
explained and keyed to page numbers in the definitive Faulkner text
(Library of America and Vintage editions). The authors place
Faulkner's novel in its historical context, while also connecting
it to his other works.
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