Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by William Faulkner, published in 1936 and sometimes characterized as Southern Gothic. It is a story about three families of the American South, taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, with the focus of the story on the life of Thomas Sutpen.
Absalom Absalom! - Plot.
Absalom, Absalom! details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in the Virginias who comes to Mississippi with the twin aims of becoming rich and becoming a ...
Absalom, Absalom! details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in the Virginias who comes to Mississippi with the twin aims of becoming rich and becoming a powerful family patriarch. The story is told entirely in flashbacks narrated mostly by Quentin Compson and by Rosa Coldfield, with events told in non-chronological order and often retold by different people with differing details, resulting in a peeling-back-the-onion way of revealing the true story of the Sutpens to the reader. Rosa initially narrates the sto ...
