![]() The second chapter, too, was quite beautiful but at times was nearly impenetrable. As someone who grew up with and spent years working with severely mentally disabled adults, I felt Faulkner honestly captured the state of mind of someone who is almost totally unable to experience rational and unselfish thought. I started off enjoying the novel I liked the experimental way Faulkner tries to convey the confused mind of Benjy. ![]() Every word Faulkner writes, every memory that is explored, every action in the novel is distilled into a lingering, oppressive, sadness that is as omnipresent as the honeysuckle Quentin so hated. Is Hemingway labelled as using the language of the upper midwest or Fitzgerald solely of the rich? All are unique and we are the better for it. And that style goes well beyond the language of the South. Unlike Wolfe Faulkner wastes few words, and has a style as original as the other two writers mentioned. The listener, as well as the reader, needs to be attentive at all times. Only Thomas Wolfe approaches the ability to create an image of the South like Faulkner. Listen closely for the imagery for which Faulkner was unique. "The Sound and the Fury" remains a standard for undergraduate English literature students as well it should. The narrator captures his style and speaks in the language of which the original was written. William Faulkner is more than "America's Southern Writer" as it's easy to place him with two other American writers (Hemingway and Fitzgerald) as one of the three great writers of American fiction of the 20th century. Yet only four readers have rated the book. I note that one reviewer has nine positive, no negative, votes as this is written.
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