Absalom Absalon Author:William Faulkner Considered by every critic one of the major novels among the nineteen volumes written by the Nobel Prize winner, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! stands with Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying and Light in August as a distinguished achievement in the literature of the South and of the entire world. — To his contemporaries w... more »hat was not primarily acceptable in Dostoyevsky was his subject matter; is style, though agitated, was relatively straightforward, his language natural, even homely and down at the heel. With Faulkner it is the other way, with a complication. His subject matter is more perverse, or more consistently perverse, than Dostoyevsky's, but it is the Nobel Prize winner's style and language that primarily make the general reader and some critics regard him with distrust. The style is oblique, involuted, circumambient; the language is spectacular, a conglomerate, and both the vision and the words are directed (driven would be more exact) by an honesty that is uncompromising and difficult.« less