/lit/ - Literature

What's with the Faulkner obsession on here lately

>>11992343
How do you learn to write like this?

>>11992348
It's 90% this one autistic anon that spams Faulkner threads to try and get people to read him

I know because I am that autistic anon

>>11992461
How can one autistic anon be so based and redpilled?

>>11992461
just bought Absalom, Absalom! Is it more difficult than The Sound and the Fury?

>>11992461
Upvoted (unironically), but sage (for superfluous threads)

>>11993154
I didn't have as hard of a time with it and I wouldn't imagine anyone would that had read The Sound and The Fury already, but its still difficult. Closer to TSATF than LiA/AILD in that regard. The only thing I would say is more difficult in Absalom than in TSATF is the diction and occasionally the extremely long winded and complex sentences. It's always hard to read when he's experimenting but in Absalom it can even be a little hard to follow when he's not. Very minor though

>>11992480
>>11993190
thanks anons I really appreciate it.

>>11993154
Not as difficult, but it does start off a littttttle bit slow and long-winded (OP pic is the second page, but the first speaker that takes up the first twenty or so pages is kinda a bitch).

>>11992343
>the deep South dead since 1865 and peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts

>>11992343
>there are people on /lit/ RIGHT NOW who read TSATF before AA

>>11992343

When I started reading voluntarily at the age of sixteen, I happened to always notice particularly long paragraphs. It came to a point where I sought an entire page of a novel without any indentation. It took me several years to encounter one but then I found it with Faulkner.

>>11993967

Why wouldn't you? It was written after.

>>11992386

Read Faulkner and Kerouac and your writing style will eventually become more flowing and natural.

Are the old southerners too demonized and misunderstood? Certainly they get about as much sympathy as the Nazis, except there wasn't a worldwide effort to restore their country after they lost the war (and the effort that did take place was a farce).

Slavery was bad, sure, but isn't having your values, way of life, and property razed to the ground (along with a large portion of your population) bad too?

this boards full of fucking children jesus christ

>>11994115
Progressivism mercilessly tramples everything that gets in its way, not just in its own time, but vilifying it forever and destroying its memory. There can't be any consideration for their enemies' humanity because progressivism is utterly inhuman.

>>11994871
What did he mean by this