LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 🇺🇸 BOOK REVIEW 

I adore Faulkner and intend to read all of his work. I've read Sound and Fury and it was really a challenge. I find it extremely interesting how Faulkner talks about the American the South in US and I, as a Brazilian, like these differences between South and North, much because of colonization is fascinating.

I think Faulkner's relevance is in helping us, as Americans, see where we came from, what we went through, and why certain things linger.

Great book .. reading it from Zambia, lusaka 2023

Thank you so much for this very thoughtful and even-handed analysis/review. I am getting ready to read LIA very soon. I am just finishing a very unique novella called The Spectre of Alexander Wolf--this has one of the most unique plots I have ever encountered--check it out if you have not already😊 I am looking forward to LIA as I have heard it is more accessible--like you, I feel the modernist experimentation is best in smaller doses. I just want to reiterate one reason I like your channel so much is the very balanced approach you have toward authors who may be "problematic" for many other reviewers. I am also looking forward to The Magus, one of my favorite novels--I may read it again. P.S. love the views of Tenirife--it reminds me so much of Southwest Florida at least in much of the foliage and trees--and hot sun! I know it is quite a different land though, as we are here in a swampy savanna. I need to catch up on your vids, have been away for a bit!

I both loved and hated the Magus, I thought it was brilliantly written and the suspense and eery atmosphere were done brilliantly but I found the ending a little confusing and anticlimactic. I had to research what the ending was about to fully appreciate it. It's a novel that still sits with me. Hope you enjoy it

Faulkner is one of my favorite writers yet it feels like he often doesn't value the reader's time or patience, almost like he wants to punish them. I think this is a reason he didn't receive much success initially. Ive noticed that modernist and post modernist writers in general seem to make things overly complicated and confusing just for the sake of it. almost like there is a belief that something straightforward cannot be profound.

Light in August was a big old "meh" for me. 😒 The southern gothic elements were sort of exaggerated I thought, lending at times an almost cartoonish air to things. I also thought that all the characters were really dumb, and the ending only reinforced that assessment. The writing veered between genuinely great and downright ridiculous, so it was an uneven experience sorta. I've still got a few Faulkner books on my shelf to read, but I've pretty much given up on getting much profundity out of them. Still, usually they're gnarly enough to at least finish reading. XD

What are you doing? You either talk about one book or a movement. I love Joyce and I love Faulkner. They have nothing in common that I can see.

Great book .. reading it from Zambia, lusaka 2023