“ Absalom, Absalom! is structurally the soundest of all the novels in the Yoknapatawpha series-and it gains power in retrospect.” This edition follows the text of Absalom, Absalom! as corrected in 1986 under the direction of Faulkner expert Noel Polk and features a new Foreword by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Absalom, Absalom: the corrected text 1990, Vintage Books in English - Vintage international ed. This second story seems all the more subversive because it. “Faulkner’s novels have the quality of being lived, absorbed, remembered rather than merely observed,” noted Malcolm Cowley. It is this desire, I would suggest, that the muted story of Absalom, Absalom threatens to thwart. The Library of America edition of Faulkners work publishes for the first time new, corrected texts of The Unvanquished, If I Forget. Although his grand design is ultimately destroyed by his own sons, a century later the figure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Quentin Compson, who is obsessed with his family legacy and that of the Old South. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Selected Short Storiesįirst published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired.

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