Even though Faulkner was a gentile who understood the nature of both niggers and television, he wasn't a particularly good human being. Nor was he an especially good writer. In an interview, he was asked "Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them?" Faulkner replies: "Read it four times."
Fuck that. Good writing stands on its own. It's not scripture that needs to be studied and interpreted.
Fuck that. Good writing stands on its own. It's not scripture that needs to be studied and interpreted.
I highly recommend "Absalom, Absalom!" which he wrote in the mid 1930s and takes place in the South starting with the beginnings of the Civil War through (((reconstruction))). Damn good book and not as well regarded as some of his other work, for obvious reasons.
A good companion piece for Faulkner's novels about the South would be the correspondence between Robert E. Howard (Based Texan who created Conan) and HP Lovecraft (should need no introduction) especially the second volume ("A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard- Volume 2) where they regularly discuss the true story of the post Civil War South. I've mentioned this correspondence several times before and really both volumes should be in the library of every man here.
An excerpt:
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