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“A feather dropped near the front door will rise and brush along the ceiling, slanting backward, until it reaches the down-turning current at the back door: so with voices.”
Faulkner throws the reader headfirst not just into a mystical, earnest but idyllic portrait of the American countryside but also into a unique style of narrative.
— Jul 03, 2023 10:57AM
Faulkner throws the reader headfirst not just into a mystical, earnest but idyllic portrait of the American countryside but also into a unique style of narrative.
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Carter Feiss
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This book is phenomenal. Faulkner accomplished something incredible in how he set up Addie’s first chapter. In the story of Jewel’s ‘sleeping spell’ I was remembering all the ways in which Jewel was quite like Anse in his anger and stubbornness and how Cash and Darl were quiet and dutiful; how Addie is described. This chapter pulls all that together and seeing Addie’s name as the title was so exciting
— Jul 24, 2023 03:14PM
Carter Feiss
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For how short it is, this book is suffuse with some of the tiches passages and motifs I have read. Faulkner uses the perspective-shifting narration to bake more detail into this story than what is printed on the pages.
Watching each character cope and “sometimes dissociate” from the death of their mother/wife/neighbor is enhanced greatly by the moments of overlap in each character’s narration.
— Jul 23, 2023 12:04PM
Watching each character cope and “sometimes dissociate” from the death of their mother/wife/neighbor is enhanced greatly by the moments of overlap in each character’s narration.
