God I feel retarded. So many loose ends and incomprehensible narrative shifts.

I read the wiki after I finished cuz I assumed I missed something but no, I followed everything that was happening literally I just couldn't understand the intent or the reasoning. Worth reading once ig but oof not gonna return again. I got like 2 more Faulkner's on my shelf so I'll at least give him another shot but he's on thin ice

Are his other books any better?

>>24558408 (OP)
Just start with As I Lay Dying. It’s not the best Faulkner, but it is great while also being very accessible. After that, read The Sound and the Fury. Then, Absalom, Absalom!
Once done, read the rest.
And yes, he is obviously worth reading, being perhaps the only American who has written anything worthwhile.

>>24558415
>And yes, he is obviously worth reading, being perhaps the only American who has written anything worthwhile
What an idiotic thing to say
Hemingway, Pound, Eliot, Melville are all better than Faulkner, who made the mistake of not writing in English, and lacked Joyce's ear to pull off obscurity

>>24558423
Melville and Pound are okay. Certainly not better than Faulkner.
Hemingway and Eliot don’t even deserve to be mentioned alongside Faulkner.

>>24558437
That statement reveals how out of your depth you are. Faulkner's entire diction is based off the Waste Land. Without Eliot there would be no Faulkner as we know him

>>24558443
Don’t conflate influence with literary value.
The Odyssey isn’t superior to Ulysses.

>>24558457
>The Odyssey isn’t superior to Ulysses.
An even more idiotic statement! Do you know Greek? What makes you feel entitled to spread such stupidity

>>24558465
If you genuinely believe that The Odyssey is a superior work of literature you need to hang yourself. Though not before admiring cave paintings and marveling at the beauty of flute music, of course.

>>24558482
>If you genuinely believe that The Odyssey is a superior work of literature you need to hang yourself
So every artist and critic of any eminence, including Tolstoy, Wagner, Nietzsche, and James Joyce himself, should hang themselves, okay

>>24558492
Ah, must have missed when Tolstoy, Wagner, and Nietzsche all rose from the grave to speak on The Odyssey v. Ulysses. Give me a minute while I research this, sounds interesting.

>>24558457
>The Odyssey isn’t superior to Ulysses.
Most retarded thing I've seen in a while, nice job. Joyce couldn't string together one decent poem or narrative and instead relied on his glowie friends to prop up his ramblings, the other has exerted immeasurable influence on Western culture for good reason. The Odyssey has propelled itself into the public conscience on account of its own merits, the other requires you suspend skepticism and judge it through a charitable lens as the product of its time. It most certainly does not speak for itself and the timeless qualities of Homer are or course entirely absent.

>>24558504
These were all men, taken at random (there are hundreds more) who esteemed Homer’s work as the greatest art, which you have compared to cave-drawing. No such debate has ever taken place, besides in the delusions of your mind. Joyce would you absurd

>>24558521
Overstated, Joyce had an exquisite ear as good as Milton

>>24558522
You are a moron who values influence more than artistic value. You are not worth anyone’s time. Ulysses is clearly the superior work, and if you cannot see that for yourself then there is not a single thing I’d like to discuss with you.

>>24558533
Anyway, I’ve succeeded at demonstrating to lurking anons what kind of person insists in this short life that you must read all of Faulkner, who, if he wanted more readers, should have tried to write more clear