Reading William Faulkner: 'Go Down, Moses' and 'Big Woods‪'‬

Faulkner is notoriously a 'difficult' writer to study,

especially for first-time readers. This Literature

Insight begins with three chapters clearly setting out

the important facts of his life, mapping the people

and history of his recurrent fictional setting,

Yoknapatawpha County, and analysing the oddities

and problems of his prose style. Later chapters turn

directly to his great novel 'Go Down, Moses' and his

later collection 'Big Woods', dealing in detail with

each story and the intertexts and showing how they

connect and add up to something much more than

loose collections. Readers new to Faulkner will find

it a very helpful introduction to his world, and those

already familiar with him a valuable resource.