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“The classic Faulkner line that everybody trots out is: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ Absalom, Absalom! is the great iteration of that line. It’s not even real; it’s become a chimera or a fabrication, another story being told. It’s a live issue that is sustaining and replenishing people. Or, in an awful way, they are kind of yoked to it, doomed to have the same argument again and again and never get to the end of it. Absalom, Absalom!—to the point that it baffles a lot of people—is the greatest exploration of that Southern theme.” Read more...
The Best Historical Fiction Set in the American South
Xan Brooks, Novelist
“It’s an emotionally powerful book about race in the South. The other books that I’ve recommended are straightforward. William Faulkner is something else. Faulkner gives you nightmares, he gets inside your psyche and presents the terrors of the South. And he does it in such an interesting way.” Read more...
The best books on The American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust, Historian
