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Absalom, Absalom

Writer's picture: Kathy MillerKathy Miller

William Faulkner, 1936

Date read: 11/13/24


This is a weird story told weirdly. First, the story: basically a poor man tried to become rich but his whole family is fucked up because of his choices. Essentially. It is told from various points of view, second-, third-, and fourthhand; it is remembrances of retellings of a story someone heard from their grandfather or etc. It gets the story across but is a little hard to follow at points. Also the last few chapters are like entirely dense dialog. Faulkner used punctuation sparsely and in his own special way.


I can't say I liked or enjoyed this novel, but I didn't dislike it either. It was an experience.

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