The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Okay, how on Earth do I try and inject my opinion on this classic? And what if I didn't get much out of it?
I had put this one off for so long simply because I stumbled in those first pages, because of the difficult of Benjy's section. And this time I just plowed through, resorting to sparknotes to straighten out what I read. Quentin's sections were only somewhat more lucid, but I was looking for the motives to his future actions and the only answer I found seemed a little limited. Truthfully, I wasn't happy until I got to the omniscient third person. This is the Faulkner I like, but still it wasn't the Faulkner of If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. I wanted the long, expansive, descriptive paragraphs. There was plenty of heartbreak here, plenty of tragedy and I was grateful for it.
While I'm happy to tick another classic off my to-read list, I wish I would have taken more away from the experience.
so you would not recommend that novel?
ReplyDeleteI would simply say that Faulkner has done work I like better.
ReplyDeleteI can't recommed that someone NOT read an obvious classic.