Absalom, Absalom!
Opis
There's a Faulkner market - no question of that. But for those on its
outskirts, watching eagerly for growth, development, maturity in his work,
there is disappointment, here as in Pylon. There is more in the sinister,
sultry atmosphere to recall Sanctuary. But the story is indirect to the
point of artificiality; the style marred by hyphenated words, manufactured
words, until you lose the sense in the glut of verbiage. A depraved story
of degenerates in a Southern family gone to seed - of Colonel Sutpen
building his tribe by incest, perversion, miscegenation and lust. There is
tragedy here, but the drawing is so out of scale that the effect is
weakened. - In spite of all this, the book - on Faulkner's name - will
sell, and rent.