I. Is there a flowchart for Faulkner's books?
II. What is his best book?
III. Does he shit on Hemingway?
IV. Would you count him as continental and/or existentialist?
V. Is he the American Tolstoy?
Also general discussion.
>>8071590
I. Did you check the sticky?
II. Absalom, Absalom, IMO but I The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying a very close seconds. If you read him, read all three of those.
III.On a personal level, yeah he talked a lot of shit. From a literary standpoint it's like comparing a soccer player to a football player. They both write, but they do entirely different things with their work.
IV. Yeah, probably a continental, I haven't thought much about him as an existentialist though. There may have been a slight impulse, but I don't think he leans strongly towards it.
V. No, they're too dissimilar and play different roles within their own cultures.
>>8071590
I. Pic related. For some reason it excludes Light in August, though – don't forget it.
II. As I Lay Dying.
III. Yes.
IV. This is nonsense. He's a modernist – would you ask this question of Joyce, Eliot or Pound?
V. See above.
I just finished As I Lay Dying and it was beautiful. The characterization in that book is something else.
>>8071590
1. Take cob of corn
2. Husk it
3. Rub the removed husk over your genitals
4. Take the corncob itself
5. Thrust it deep into your anus
>>8071896
I have a question, also: Should it be viewed as a comedy or a tragedy? It seemed pretty melancholy but I read there's a lot of subtle humor, and I could see this with how the ending goes.
Absalom is his best by a longshot imo (which speaks to its quality since AILD and TSaTF are both still good)
>>8071619
Modernism is an artistic movement related to a specific period of time, not a general "worldview" philosophy such as existentialism. Obviously, existentialism didn't exist under that name in his time, but to say he was a Modernist is somewhat irrelevant.
>>8071619
Yes, but Joyce would be an absurdist, had he known the movement existed. Iḿ not asking if *he* considered himself an existentialist, but if *we* consider him one today from a current standpoint.
>>8072253
I don't understand. Surely any philosophical school you attribute to him is only a single and reductive way of reading him?
>>8072223
The last stretch is definitely supposed to be funny, but you're laughing at how abject and disgusting what happens is, so it's a tragicomedy I guess.
>>8072264
>Joyce would be an absurdist, had he known the movement existed
Why do you think that?
>>8071896
interesting
I also just finished it
I had a hard time figuring out what happened at the end,why did Darl lose his shit out of nowhere?
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>>8072602
Of course, I don't think OP believes the answer to his question would explain all of Faulkner's work, he's just curious about what philosophical movement he might have agreed with.
>>8071590
Just started Sound and the Fury.
Any tips, desu?
>>8072695wasn't out of nowhere. but it had to do with his relationship with his mother, coupled with the emotional/existential weight of everything he knew about his family
>>8072695
I think that was actually hinted at a lot before it occurred. Notice how near the beginning he cansee what happens at the house even while he's away on the trip to town.His function as a narrator who eventuallygoes insaneis a pretty funny thing to include if you think about it, like the reader is being made fun of in a way.
>>8072710 is probably more on the mark though
if I've read all of his masterpieces already (Sound&Fury, Absalom, as I lay dying, light in august), is it even worth reading his other work?
>>8073242
The Unvanquished is really good. Wild Palms is a little above average. Fable is shit. Pylon is shit. Snopes trilogy is great, especially after Hamlet.
>>8071590
I. Already answered.
II. Snopes trilogy
III. Yes, fuck that guy.
IV. Both.
V. No.
In Absalom Absalom during Rosa's narrative she is all of a sudden back home after Sutpen said to her three words and now the town is making chants like Rosie Coldfield couldn't keep a man.
I'm a dense cunt I know but what happened here? Did Sutpen just send her off home?
>>8072699
stick it out to the end, then re read.
