You have to really love Literature and the artistic use of language to appreciate Faulkner. But my girlfriend loved The Wild Palms and read it in her own language. Faulkner has been well translated, couldn't be otherwise with him. The Sound and the Fury is not an easy reading. It's about the offspring of an old southern family. Faulkner focused himself in the decading South of EEUU. Being somehow over understood that it turned decadent after the slavery prohibition. He went as far as to create an imaginary county where his stories happened. It's supposed to be somewhere in Mississipi, for sure. Took me an effort to keep with The Sound and the Fury. Was tempted to quit it, now and then. But finally liked it, and think it's a Masterwork, a very well done piece of writing. The whole thing is a horror kind of tale, about a southern decading family. A father and his sons, basically. It seems they were wealthier in their past, but are close to misery when it all starts. It's built upon two (can't remember if even three) different monologues, and one of them is that of an idiot. Needless to mention how difficult it has to be to make a story teller of an idiot. There's violence in this story, psychological violence, also. It's so well done that you can distinguish who's telling by the way he speaks. And the plot is the incoming tragedy, for one can feel since the beginning, that nothing good is gonna come from there. There's a tragic fate awaiting these guys, it can be noticed. Of course, you can't foresee what's gonna happen, though the threat of some tragic incoming future is all around the brothers. So, what else to be said? - Faulkner can be, and too often is, a hard reading, in every sense. Read partially Light in August, but this one bored me and I did not kept with. It's not easy to try to make something interesting with ignorant, poor people as characters. And think this is something Faulkner faced all time. He has a wonderful work, instead, that was taken into a great movie. This is his Short Story The Long and Hot Summer, with which Orson Wells did that good movie. Then there is Wild Palms, which is surely his best. Here again he uses the monologue technique, and it deals about a convict who has made the prison his home and fears freedom. This is the one I would recommend. Though warning that Faulkner is maybe never an easy reading, and so he may bore the reader. Read also Sanctuary, but didn't like it, found it confusing and boring. Read somehow Sanctuary was a failure, inspite of, apparently, the bit of a scandal it brought, when published. Can't tell what it was done with, when taken into a movie, never watched that. Remember it's about a delinquent and there was some violence in this novel. Read much later that as a man, Faulkner, not a tall one, was a womaniser who finished being an alcoholic. Read it in French, (cause feared not to understand it properly) but could see he was good also in managing the vocabulary. Like it or not, this author is praised as being one of the most important writers of the past century. 🆗👍🙏
@@jessebarajas7972 my dude, The person in question being William Faulkner is deceased, in which you case always refer to said individual in past tense. You’re phrase would be incorrect grammatically since it is in future tense “will have” doesn’t make sense. The original comment goes as follows “He has a cool voice” in present tense again the subject in question being deceased can not be referred to present tense. He should have instead said “He had a cool voice”.
