A Southern Gothic epic unraveling the Sutpen family's tragic downfall through layered narratives, confronting obsession, race, slavery, and incest in the antebellum South.
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A Southern Gothic epic unraveling the Sutpen family's tragic downfall through layered narratives, confronting obsession, race, slavery, and incest in the antebellum South.
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If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner’s epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, a man who comes to the South in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.” ... The Amazon Book Review Book</
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Incest, rape, and miscegenation are central plot elements
Violence & gore
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Fratricide and violent confrontations occur
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Religious content
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Biblical allusions to King David and Absalom
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central examination of racism, slavery, and Southern history
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Slavery, incest, rape, and systemic cruelty dominate
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