Absalom, Absalom! (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 19 Ratings
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Publisher Description
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.
Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." His tragedy left its impress not only on his contemporaries but also on men who came after, men like Quentin Compson, haunted even into the 20th century by Sutpen's legacy of ruthlessness and singleminded disregard for the human community.
Customer Reviews
Incredible Narration
I was reluctant to listen to a dictation of Faulkner. The language is so dense and poetic that it almost requires your own reading of it. Yet, this is likely one of the few narrators that so brilliantly dictates the text that the reader is deprived of very little. If you must listen to Faulkner, this is the man to read it to you.