There's a Faulkner market - no question of that. But for those on
its outskirts, watching eagerly for growth, development, maturity
in his work, there is disappointment, here as in Pylon. There is
more in the sinister, sultry atmosphere to recall Sanctuary. But
the story is indirect to the point of artificiality; the style
marred by hyphenated words, manufactured words, until you lose the
sense in the glut of verbiage. A depraved story of degenerates in a
Southern family gone to seed - of Colonel Sutpen building his tribe
by incest, perversion, miscegenation and lust. There is tragedy
here, but the drawing is so out of scale that the effect is
weakened. - In spite of all this, the book - on Faulkner's name -
will sell, and rent. (Kirkus Reviews)
Qentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a Negro butler. From then on, Sutpen determined to be a Virginia plantation owner himself. His ambitions are soon realized:plantation, marriage, children, his own troop to fight in the Civil War...but Sutpen returns to find his estate in ruins. Worse, Charles, son of Sutpen's first repudiated to a partly coloured girl, seeks engagement to Sutpen's daughter, Judith.When Charles realizes this he offers to give up Judith for recognition by Sutpen.
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