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Absalom, Absalom! was published in 1936, after Faulkner's three seminal novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and A Light in August (1932). One of the strange things about this chronology is that two of the narrators of Absalom, Absalom! (Mr. Compson and Quentin Compson) have…
Absalom, Absalom study guide contains a biography of William Faulkner, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
- Short Summary
- About Absalom, Absalom
- Character List
- Major Themes
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 1
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 2
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 3
- Summary and Analysis of Chapter 4
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- My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
- The Problem with Being There: The Distorting Effect of Personal Experience in Absalom, Absalom
- "I am Telling": Narrative and Identity in Absalom, Absalom!
- Relations Between Blacks and Whites in Faulkner's Literature
- Ambivalence and Anguish: The Inescapability of the Old South and its Destruction of Quentin Compson in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom
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