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Book · 1936 · Fiction

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner
Vintage International (Penguin Random House) · 313 pages
★ 9.0 editorial score

Thomas Sutpen arrives in Mississippi from nowhere with a band of slaves and a French architect and builds a dynasty that destroys itself. Two students retell it until it swallows them.

Genre
Southern gothicSouthern literatureFamily saga
Medium
Novel
Subject
Race relationsAmerican South
Setting
Mississippi
Time
1936Depicts American Civil WarDepicts 1860s

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Quote · 1926

“I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.”

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“People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”

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“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

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