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Title: The Hamlet by William Faulkner ISBN: 0-679-73653-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: It's a slow go, but well worth it
Comment: Three-and-a-half stars. There is nothing about The Hamlet that will surprise fans of Faulkner's work: it is a dense novel written in the author's trademark style--mind-bending prose that often leaves one wondering what in the world just happened. But it's worth it, because The Hamlet is the springboard for Faulkner's impressive Snopes trilogy. What happens in this book sets the stage for the more entertaining (and more accessible) The Town and The Mansion. Flem Snopes emerges as a force to be reckoned with, and the manic antics of his redneck relatives propels the narrative forward with enough momentum that the reader, at novel's close, is curious to learn what happens when the diabolical genius of Flem Snopes is loosed on Jefferson. Read it: but keep in mind that it all gets more interesting in the books that follow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excuse the Californian...
Comment: He evidently has no idea of how to read text that makes certain demands upon the reader. Faulkner's writing is complex, sometimes difficult, yes. But if you read with even the smallest amount of serious attention, you will see that Faulkner knows precisely what he is doing, that those long sentences make perfect sense, and this is seldom more in evidence than in The Hamlet, one of Faulkner's finest works. If you can't take it, fine. Go back to reading John Grisham.
Rating: 5
Summary: Enter another world
Comment: The Hamlet is about the beginning of the rise of the Snopes clan. But what you get out of it, what is more lasting than the stories of a pack of low-down people clawing and cheating and killing their way across Yoknapatawpha County -- which are devastating, and funny, and weird enough in themselves to earn this novel the highest praise -- is the sensation of immersion into William Faulkner's fictional reality. It is a universe in which the characters do things that people do, but as you are reading you get the feeling you might be dreaming. Something is just off, and that strangeness serves as a giant light beam on the human soul. No one has concocted a stage and players like this, with such deep insight, and beautiful poetic prose, and humor, since Shakespeare maybe. Read The Hamlet slowly, read sentences twice sometimes, don't hurry, and you will be utterly, irreversibly hooked.
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Title: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679732187 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Light in August by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679732268 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sanctuary by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679748148 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Unvanquished by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679736522 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679732179 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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