In my opinion, he is fantastic. I just finished reading Go Down, Moses and it was wonderful. I've also read As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury. TSATF is one of my favorite books I've ever read. It was so great because half the time you never know what the hell is going on, but it is still fascinating and in the end it all becomes clear. It is simply brilliant. Anyone else a fan? What is your favorite book? I think I am going to read The Hamlet next.
I don't think I've read any of his novels, but "A Rose for Emily" is one of the best short stories I have ever come across.
I read half of "The Sound and the Fury" but didn't know what the hell was supposed to be going on, so I felt stupid and stopped reading it.
Nah, you shouldn't feel stupid. Most people have no idea what is going on. You just have to keep going and then it all comes together
i read "As i lay dying" this semester in american lit. jesus, is that a sick family or what? i hear that tsatf is even more warped.
i've only read the sound and the fury.... i think i'm a little bit too intimidated to touch anything else of his for a while because fury is so intense, and you have to put like all your concentration into it, it's definently not a light read
I read Faulkner late-- after reading a lot of Hemingway , Henry Miller and dozens of pretenders. Faulkner is the real thing: AS I LAY DYING is a true work of art. THE SOUND AND THE FURY, is difficult: a tale told 4 ways by 4 different people, one of them, Benjy, a retard. I remember near the end, I forget his name, saying , " I don't hate the South, I don't hate the South-- I really don't!" But, he did. Faulner was a literary gift from God. Enjoy him. (Faulkner is troublesome, sometimes hard to decipher: so, to, is God.)
I enjoyed reading "The Sound and the Fury." I also had to go into an in-depth analysis of the novel for school and I loved it! Literary criticism makes you look at books from different points of view and it is very interesting.
I used to like faulkner then I became an enlish major and can't read another word. I do still like his short stories though. especially barn burning. someone mentioned hemingway not being as good as faulkner and i have to agree considering h. was a drunk and wrote like one hehe. don't get mad anyone. Faulkner is very hard to read, but maybe after I haven't had to analyze his wordiness for hours on end and just enjoy it, I will come back around.
"Absalom, Absalom!" is his magnum opus in my opinion. I lived in Oxford,Mississippi for a year and it is a well spring for emerging authors. Walking in Faulkner's house gave me a strange sensation, not negative or positive, but ackward. Reading a biography of Faulkner illuminates his fiction. You really understand why he wrote about what he wrote about. He actually had a grandmother named Damuddy, which he used in the S&F. A very unhappy man though, and alcohol was a kind of muse for him. The greatest American author. Growing up in rural Georgia makes his work even more terrifying and beautiful.
