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William Faulkner · 1936
A Southern Gothic novel narrated through fragmented accounts of the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a mysterious man who arrives in Jefferson, Mississippi and builds a plantation dynasty, told primarily through the recollections of Miss Rosa Coldfield to young Quentin Compson. Faulkner's prose is dense, introspective, and layered with multiple perspectives exploring themes of ambition, race, family legacy, and the burden of the American South's past.
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What this book knows
The past refuses to stay past: obsessive retelling reveals how dynastic ambition, race, and doomed inheritance shatter everyone it touches.
ambition-and-status
he had to do it whether he wanted to or not, with all the dead ones waiting and watching to see if he was going to do it right
AAW-RC-190that was the same second when he discovered his innocence—not the second, the moment, the day, the instant
AAW-RC-195Emotional val .100% times increase yearly for each child plus intrinsic val…daughter? daughter? daughter? trailing off
AAW-RC-262trauma-and-survival
the Sutpen face not approaching but already there, rocklike, antedating time and house and doom and all, waiting
AAW-RC-114the attenuated and invincible spirit has changed and shaped even hopelessness into the easy obliviousness of a worn garment
AAW-RC-136shame
That paper is between you and one who is inescapably Negro; it can be put aside, no one will anymore dare bring it up
AAW-RC-179Illuminates
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