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488 William Faulkner (with Carl Rollyson)

The History of Literature

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Faulkner - The Mansion, the Third Novel in the Snopes Trilogy

I would say I grew to like him even more because there were spides to him the way he treated women. He did not have as Tolstoy did a kind of prose that would always make it easy for people to understand what he was doing. Even some very, very bright critics really didn't understand the direction he was moving in. It's important to imagine things from everyone's point of view and listen to the stories that everyone has.

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