Absalom, Absalom!

Faulkner, William

ISBN 10: 0394717805 / ISBN 13: 9780394717807

Published by Vintage, 1972

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Synopsis:

In English , 378pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner , New Albany , Mississippi, September 25, 1897 - Byhalia, July 6, 1962 ) was an American storyteller and poet . In his works psychological drama and emotional depth , used a long, serpentine prose for it , plus a meticulous lexicon. Nobel for Literature 1949. Like other prolific authors , suffered the envy and was considered the stylistic rival Hemingway ( his long sentences contrasted with short Hemingway ) . It is considered the only likely American modernist of the 1930s , following the experimental tradition of European writers such as James Joyce , Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, and known for its use of innovative literary techniques such as interior monologue , the inclusion of multiple narrators or views and jumps in time within the narrative . Their influence is evident in the generation of South American writers of the second half of the twentieth century. García Márquez in his Living to Tell and Vargas Llosa in A Fish in the Water , admit their influence on the narrative ..

Review: For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner s works] are without equal in our time and country. Robert Penn Warren
He is the greatest artist the South has produced. . . . Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics. Ralph Ellison"

-For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country.- --Robert Penn Warren
-He is the greatest artist the South has produced. . . . Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.- --Ralph Ellison

"For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country." --Robert Penn Warren

"He is the greatest artist the South has produced. . . . Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics." --Ralph Ellison

Bibliographic Details

Title: Absalom, Absalom!
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good