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First in a trilogy about the fictitious Snopes family in Faulkner's fictitious Yoknapatawpha County. This is not stream of consciousness but I had no idea what was going on anyway. Not that that has ever stopped me, his prose is sublime and just reading it is a very great pleasure. Recommended.
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Intruder in the Dust is written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Faulkner has become known for. It's set in the deep southern states of America in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County and explores the race relations between black and white at a time in history when said relations were worse than they are now. A common theme in Faulkner's writing. It was first published in 1948. An elderly black farmer rescues a 12-year-old white boy from the frozen river on the farmer's property and four years later the elderly farmer is accused of and locked up for shooting a white man in the back. The white folks in the town are baying for his blood but the sheriff locks him up pending a trial. The white boy is now 16 and decides to prove the black man's innocence with the help of a black boy of the same age and an elderly white spinster lady of a long-standing and well-known family. The story is told from the white 16-year-old's point of view. The prose is amazing and the story astonishing. Highly recommended
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Amazon puts it best : In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might surrender but could never be vanquished. What's not clear from that is that the episodes are chapters in the book and the people of the South are the one family (Sartoris) and the lives they touch during the Civil War. Faulkner's prose is stunning as always, and I took my time reading this so that I could enjoy it for as long as possible. Generally speaking what you read about is how the women fared when their men were off fighting the war and Faulkner does mention that the women didn't get to decide to go to war nor did they decide to surrender but just had to deal with what the situation threw at them. And naturally they coped very well. A story of black and white, rich and poor, women and children in a time and place that has elsewhere been described as Gone With the Wind. Very recommended and not stream of consciousness
