Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
I must admit I slogged through this novel as I also did with The Sound and the Fury and, much to my chagrin, there are two more novels on the 1001 list. While Faulkner is certainly a revered author, he is just not one I appreciate.
In 1833 Thomas Sutpen arrives in Mississippi with an architect and a group of slaves intent on getting land to build his plantation. While his drive in business is a resounding success, his success with his family is an absolute failure.
Miss Rosa Coldfield spits at the name Thomas Sutpen, the man she almost married and lives a life of bitterness and regret.
A shrewd man focused on building his plantation, Thomas Sutpen’s lack of empathy does not do for making healthy alliances with family or foe.
Thomas Sutpen’s daughter, Clytie grew up on Sutpen’s Hundred but was considered inferior to her siblings Judith and Henry. She burns the manor house down and dies as a result of it.
Quotes:
Maybe you have to know anybody awful well to love them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe it’s better than maybe it’s fine then because after forty-three years they can’t any longer surprise you or make you either very contented or very mad.
They did not need to talk. They were too much alike. They were as two people become now and then, who seem to know one another so well or are so much alike that the power, the need, to communicate by speech atrophies from disuse and, comprehending without need of the medium of ear or intellect, they no longer understand one another’s actual words.
Mississippi would certainly be my meeting place with Faulkner and I would most certainly try to focus on his younger years and steer clear of my reviews.
My rating for Absalom, Abasalom is a 6 out of 10.
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