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Influence and significance

Absalom, Absalom, along with The Sound and the Fury, helped Faulkner win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Its groundbreaking out of order storytelling, and frequent use of stream of consciousness often has had many critics calling Faulkner a pioneer of the modernist movement, along with other authors like James Joyce.