Absalom, Absalom (collected Works of Faulkner)
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About This Novel
"Absalom, Absalom!" "" Is Faulkner's most important, complex, profound and epic work. It tells the story of a family in the southern United States that experienced intense disintegration from about 1860 to 1910. It profoundly expresses the various conflicts between people and between people and themselves, and touches on many universal issues related to the human condition. The narrative method of the novel is unique; the characters in the book "interpret" the past from different angles and with different subjective feelings, but together they embody the tragic style of the entire work. The title of this book comes from an allusion from the Bible. The love and hate between parents and children, the ambiguous feelings between brothers and sisters, etc. Described in the book have the color of biblical stories.
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