4 edition of William Faulkner"s Absalom, Absalom found in the catalog.
William Faulkner"s Absalom, Absalom
Elizabeth Muhlenfeld
Published
December 1984
by Taylor & Francis
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Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | 247 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL8123072M |
| ISBN 10 | 0824092279 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780824092276 |
Summary. Quentin asks his father why Miss Rosa would want to tell the story of her betrayal at the hands of Thomas Sutpen. Mr. Compson answers by describing Rosa's life: her mother died while giving birth to her, after Ellen had already been married for seven years; Rosa was raised by the spinster aunt who had insisted on Ellen having a large wedding, and grew up hating her father for her. Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early s 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.”;.
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Absalom, Absalom! is known to be Faulkner's most difficult book – and his others are not exactly The Cat in the Hat. That said, with the right tools – a family tree, a dictionary, a chronology, and of course, Shmoop – you can enjoy the book for its intricate story and eloquent writing. Absalom, Absalom, then, as Faulkner’s lament for what he called “my country, the South” that rebelled not only against the Union, the North, but, in its pride, rebelled against the gods themselves, the true order of things,, Sutpen as the symbol of the South, of the origins of what eventually became a settled Planter Class — a Planter Class, like Sutpen, sublime and splendid in many of its rough virtues and Reviews:
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Published inAbsalom, Absalom. is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels/5().
I know William Faulkner is one of our most celebrated writers, so disliking this book goes against the worshipful crowd. However, I found Absalom, Absalom to be so dense, byzantine and chock full of non-stop ENDLESS run-on sentences (otherwise called stream-of-consciousness /5(9).
I know William Faulkner is one of our most celebrated writers, so disliking this book goes against the worshipful crowd. However, I found Absalom, Absalom to be so dense, byzantine and chock full of non-stop ENDLESS run-on sentences (otherwise called stream-of-consciousness /5(8).
Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner ( - ) Absalom, Absalom. is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in Taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.4/5(K).
I know William Faulkner is one of our most celebrated writers, so disliking this book goes against the worshipful crowd. However, I found Absalom, Absalom to be so dense, byzantine and chock full of non-stop ENDLESS run-on sentences (otherwise called stream-of-consciousness 3/5(5). Absalom. is William Faulkner's major work--his most important and ambitious contribution to American literature.
In the dramatic texture of this story of the founding, flourishing and decay of the plantation of Sutpen's Hundred, and of the family that demonic Stephen Sutpen brought into the world a generation before the Civil War, there rises the lament of the South for its own vanished by: Free download or read online Absalom, Absalom.
pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by William Faulkner. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.4/5.
Absalom, Absalom. by William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom. is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during.
Absalom, Absalom. is a novel by William Faulkner that was first publishedin First published inAbsalom, Absalom. is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in Ina wild, imposing man named Thomas Sutpen comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, with a group of slaves and a French architect in tow.
He buys a hundred square miles of land from an Indian tribe, raises a manor house, plants cotton, and marries the daughter of a local merchant, and within a few years is entrenched among the local by: Absalom, Absalom.
by William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom. is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during, and after the Civil War, with the focus of Written: Absalom, Absalom.
is Faulkner's great novel of the rise and fall of the Sutpen dynasty and a great allegory of the rise and fall of the Old South. It should be noted that first of all this is probably Faulkner's greatest and most difficult book told through three interconnected narratives tells the life story of Thomas by: William Faulkner Novels Absalom, Absalom.
/ the Unvanquished / if I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / the Hamlet Faulkner, William & Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk Published by Library of America, New York (). Faulkner's original title for the novel was "Dark House," and as in much of his work, we see in Absalom, Absalom.
strong elements of the gothic literary convention: a ruined and possibly haunted house, a demonic hero, family secrets, hints of incest, a melodramatic plot, an overwhelming mood of decadence and decay.
Yet in its depth and intensity, the novel clearly transcends the often /5(45). Absalom Absalom Vintage International By: William Faulkner ISBN: See detail of this book on Book served by AMAZON NOIR () project by: PAOLO CIRIO ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO Page 1 F rom a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still.
If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom. is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, in the early s to /5(6).
Absalom, Absalom!, novel by American writer William Faulkner, published in The principal narrative, set in 19th-century Mississippi, involves Thomas Sutpen, a poor white man from the mountains of West Virginia who rebels against his family and his alcoholic father, suffers a life-changing insult by a black servant, migrates to Haiti and becomes an overseer of a plantation, marries but.
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. Absalom Absalom By: William Faulkner Also By William Faulkner Intruder in the Dust Moses Go Down Flags in the Dust A Fable The Essential Faulkner Collected Stories of William Faulkner Big Woods As I Lay Dying Top Books.
Support Mail To: [email protected]. Hello, Sign in. Account & Lists Account & Lists Returns & Orders. Try/5(). First published inAbsalom, Absalom! contributed greatly to Faulkner’s Nobel Prize and was voted the best Southern novel of all time in by Oxford Magazine.
The novel also contains the longest sentence in literature according to the Guinness Book of World Records—a 1,word long sentence in chapter Edition: 1. Auflage.William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.
One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkable books.
