5/24/2023 0 Comments Faulkner absalom absalom![]() ![]() ![]() and Quentin Compson allow the reader to see the destruction of two Southern families in the context of the South's destruction.įor the destruction of the South, ultimately, is Faulkner's concern. The two novels have a great deal in common thematically, and the presence of Mr. Compson for this work has the curious effect of bringing back the dead, it is both appropriate-given the subject of this novel-and unusual. Faulkner, who was not widely read at the time but had a small core audience, could have expected his readers to be familiar with Quentin and Mr. Compson and Quentin Compson) have already met their decline and destruction in an earlier work about the Compson family, The Sound and the Fury. One of the strange things about this chronology is that two of the narrators of Absalom, Absalom! ( Mr. Absalom, Absalom! was published in 1936, after Faulkner's three seminal novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and A Light in August (1932). ![]()
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