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William Faulkner · 1929
A modernist novel exploring the decline of a Southern family through fragmented narratives and stream-of-consciousness perspectives. Faulkner's reflective introduction discusses the novel's composition, his artistic development, and the role of art in Southern life.
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What this book knows
A family's dissolution told through shattered time and consciousness reveals how grief and shame outlast those who caused them.
grief
I sees de resurrection en de light; sees de meek Jesus sayin Dey kilt me dat ye shall live again
SF-RC-197Dilsey emerged, again in the maroon cape and the purple gown, and wearing soiled white elbow-length gloves
SF-RC-191Hush. Take him down home, T.P. Frony fixing him a bed. Hush, Benjy.
SF-RC-027shame
one of them is crazy and another one drowned himself … what's the reason the rest of them are not crazy too
SF-RC-155How could you leave me with these burdens … My own flesh and blood
SF-RC-120mind-and-cognition
Say it to Father will you I will am my fathers Progenitive I invented him created I him Say it to him
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