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Years ago I hated faulkner (along with woolf and many of the other stream of consciousness writers) but growing older (and hopefully maturing) i've come to appreciate faulkner (and the other writers) and their profound influence on world literature.
This book isn't quite the sensory trip and beautiful chaos of southern america/reconstruction that the sound and the fury is...but it creates a meditative and gripping vision all it's own that is just as intimate and disturbing as sound was, with perh ...more
This book isn't quite the sensory trip and beautiful chaos of southern america/reconstruction that the sound and the fury is...but it creates a meditative and gripping vision all it's own that is just as intimate and disturbing as sound was, with perh ...more
I understand there is a lot of controversy about this novel of William Faulkner. It takes place in Mississippi during the 1930's. A family is driving the body of their mother, Addie, in the back of a wagon for 40 miles. What could possibly go wrong with that idea? It is the reaction of each family member and people the family meet on the way which makes this novel a classic. I felt for each person and understood their reactions. Forty miles does not seem to be a great deal of a distance to toda
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At first I struggled a lot, especially trying to figure out who was who and doing what, then of course the language was neither easy nor mine, nonetheless once I "got into the book," I devoured it and still have chills.
All'inizio ho fatto molta fatica, soprattutto a cercare di capire chi fosse chi e facesse cosa, poi certo la lingua non era né facile né la mia, ciò non toglie che una volta "entrata nel libro", l'ho divorato e ho ancora i brividi. ...more
All'inizio ho fatto molta fatica, soprattutto a cercare di capire chi fosse chi e facesse cosa, poi certo la lingua non era né facile né la mia, ciò non toglie che una volta "entrata nel libro", l'ho divorato e ho ancora i brividi. ...more
3.5 stars
Definitely not an uplifting read!
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