![]() ![]() Sutpen’s story, though, is not told simply, nor is it told in a linear fashion. through the beginning of the Reconstruction period. Sutpen’s story covers the years from the early 19th c. With his own hands and the efforts of slaves he brought from Haiti, he carved out a 100-mile section of Mississippi to be the site of his great estate and plantation – land that came to be known as Sutpen’s Hundred. ![]() The novel tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, a poor man from West Virginia, who made money in the West Indies and then settled in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, to live as landed gentry there. Here Quentin has a rather complicated position – he is both audience and narrator in a story of tremendous complexity. Those who have read The Sound and the Fury already know Quentin as one of the narrators of that work. I chose this book for my September classic review because the framing story begins in September 1909, as Quentin Compson gets ready to head to Harvard. It’s not even past.” That statement from Faulkner’s 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun, could be said of all of Faulkner’s writing, and for Absalom, Absalom! (1936) especially. ![]() One of my favorite quotes is: “The past is never dead. ![]()
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