A_Powerful_Moss t1_ixvs1ip wrote
Reply to comment by ApocalypseSpokesman in As I Lay Dying- a masterpiece! by kchow81
Out of curiosity, what’s your fav book you’ve ever read? Also, I trenchantly disagree with your take on Faulkner, but to each their own.
ApocalypseSpokesman t1_ixw74iv wrote
I can't answer what my favorite book ever was. Not like "ooh, there's so many," just like I usually don't keep track of them in my mind that way.
One recent read that struck me very favorably was The Death of Ivan Ilych.
yeetedhaws t1_ixxlt8o wrote
Oh see I hated the death of Ivan Ilyich, to me it was extremely dry and straight to the point. I didn't even really understand why it was written because the point was so straight forward/I didn't have to really think deeper to understand it.
Faulkner is on the opposite end of the spectrum, he writes through implications and pastoral descriptions. I still remember the chapter where the daughter went to get an abortion and her little brother waited outside. The reader isn't directly told what's happening but we all figure it out in a way that a careless writer wouldn't have been able to pull off. Same with the ending and dad getting his new teeth, the reader can imagine what happens next and what happened leading up to it without it being explicitly explained.
It's definitely written in a way that looks clumsy but that makes the relevant information that much more hard hitting.
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