ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen. Absalom, Absalom!

Detailed explanation-2: -Absalom, Absalom! is a novel about the meaning of history, and about the extreme pressure of the past, particularly in the South, upon the inhabitants of the present. More importantly, it is about the doubtful process of coming to know, reconstruct, and come to grips with history.

Detailed explanation-3: -Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Faulkner wrote numerous novels, screenplays, poems, and short stories. Today he is best remembered for his novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), and Absalom, Absalom!

Detailed explanation-5: -Faulkner published Absalom, Absalom! in 1936, and Goodreads reviewers often consider it the writer’s masterpiece. It tells of Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who marries a respectable family. Yet his passion and desire for control lead to the ruin of his family.