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Title: Revisiting the ghosts of the old south.
Review: In the incredible novel Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner creates, rather, reveals the tragic southern saga of the Sutpen family and how issues of ambition and morality bring about their downfall. Beyond the many thematic offerings of the "legend" and its telling however, a much larger picture looms. That the traditions of a society founded on shaky ground, by opportunistic ancestors created a people whose entire vision was veiled by the oppresiveness of the caste system and who, when war finally removed the veil, found that they were not the strong, honorable stock they thought they were. Two generations later the ghosts of the old south continue to haunt Quentin Compson who can no more seperate himself from them than his roomate Shreve can understand what it means to have been born in good old Yoknapatawpha County.
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