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Summary: A real design of the nature and structure of narration.
Review: the narration in a chronological and sequential process is impossible. in the reading, you have to put some consideration and concerns which make the impossibility. Motives, love, and hatred are some important elements that you can find in this book. maybe you can just read the part of story which is arranged and sorted by Quentin and Shreve. Challenging and critical.
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Summary: THE great American novel since the moment it was published
Review: Only Faulkner could write a better novel than The Sound and the Fury, and he did with this one. In fact, some years ago one of the critics said that Faulkner had "wrought the greatest sustained achievement in the history of American Literature." He did, and for those willing to fight with his convoluted, mesmerizing story of Sutpen the rewards are great. We are all at the mercy of this great work. Just when we think serious literature is out of fashion, we hear of people reading this book and being swept away by it. There may be hope for us after all.
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Summary: Staggering intellectual achievement, profoundly "human"
Review: A truly multifaceted achievement. This book has it all: Astouding narrative technique, masterly prose and a heartrending story. Singularly rewarding to read.Faulkner's brainpower could energize a city!
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Summary: Break through the Southern Mythic Haze
Review: Of all the ink spilled about the fall of the South, the new South, the nostalgia for the South etc., this is the one book that breaks through the haze and shows the how the myths linger and reproduce themselves instead of just reproducing or attempting to debunk them. Through Quentin and Rosa, we see a life which is never one's own, which is drenched in the received notions of time and place we are all burdened with. Makes a wonderfull companion to reading The Sound and the Fury and the perfect antitdote to Gone with the Wind et all.
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Summary: Should you buy it?
Review: This book is about family. So are the rest of his books. The critics raped this one when it was published; yet another reason to ignore literary criticism. One star? Yeah, as in "there's only one star." And this one is it.
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Summary: The best of Faulkner's works.
Review: Out of all of Faulkner's books I have read, this is by far the best one. The challenging language, speculative recollection of the past, and fatalistic tendencies of the characters makes it one of the best novels ever written in the English language.
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Summary: great even for unintelligent people
Review: i have to admit right now that i am not of the smart person caregory but even so, this book is easily the most fantastic thing i have ever read. even though probably everyone who has reviewed this book tells you it is difficult reading, (it really is) read it anyway. reading this as a naive 20 year old, i only wish i could comprehend half of this book's meaning and hopefully someday i will. do yourself a favor and buy (and read too i guess) this book.
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Summary: Stunned! A sheer masterwork!!
Review: Now, I'll be the first to say that reading Faulkner is no day at a picnic, but he is well worth the effort. I've just completed Absalom, Absalom! and I am stunned and in awe of a beautiful, mesmerizing, heartbreaking masterpiece. It is the story of Thomas Stupen and how he builds his 'design' and how it affects the people, who has the misfortune, of being sired by him or perceived as a tool or an obstacle. Fulfilling his 'design' is his reason for living, and it is sheer irony that what he believes will hamper his 'design' is the very thing that survives his building of it. Told with sentences that Faulkner is famous for, it is a beautifully constructed story that at times I was in awe of how beautiful his sentences were. Yes, those sentences and the never-ending paragraphs. I wouldn't have traded reading this one for the world.
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Summary: Make the effort; Absalom's worth it
Review: Feel free to complain about the endless paragraphs that don't have any real stopping places; go ahead and moan about the bottles of Tylenol you have to buy for the headaches. As the saying goes, no pain no gain -- and Absalom will give you plenty of both. Is Absalom an accurate portrait of the South? I think not. But it is an accurate portrait of how people think about the South, and that ultimately is far more interesting. From Thomas Sutpen's coldhearted pursuit of his grand design, passing through Aunt (er, I mean, Miss) Rosa's gothic caricature of it, and ending up with Shreve and Quentin trying -- almost fumbling in the dark -- to figure out the circumstances surrounding Thomas Sutpen, just as Southerners today are still trying to figure out how we ended up on a road to self-destruction. A must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand the South.
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Summary: One of the 20th century's great artistic works
Review: i am now a great fan of faulkners after having read at least 12 of his 17 novels and having re-read most of them but i assure you his greatest achievement is without doubt this read it for insight into faulkners complete view of the old south and relations between blacks and whites there in unforgettable prose and tight plotting with near perfect craftsmanship in narration one of my all time favourite books
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