Nice review. Makes me want to revisit Light in August.
I read it one heady summer when I was taking a physics course before my junior year in college. I had thought I might want to declare a physics and/or math major, but I found myself spending more time reading fiction than working on my Electricity & Magnetism p-sets. I read Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, To the Lighthouse, Foucault’s Pendulum, and Infinite Jest that summer. In that context, I found Light in August disappointing. To me, it felt like Faulkner wasn’t really trying. It was a nice enough book. highly readable, but compared to the intricate density and anguish of Absalom, it didn’t leave much of an impression on me.
In retrospect, I may have been grading on an unfair curve.
Nice review. Makes me want to revisit Light in August.
I read it one heady summer when I was taking a physics course before my junior year in college. I had thought I might want to declare a physics and/or math major, but I found myself spending more time reading fiction than working on my Electricity & Magnetism p-sets. I read Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, To the Lighthouse, Foucault’s Pendulum, and Infinite Jest that summer. In that context, I found Light in August disappointing. To me, it felt like Faulkner wasn’t really trying. It was a nice enough book. highly readable, but compared to the intricate density and anguish of Absalom, it didn’t leave much of an impression on me.
In retrospect, I may have been grading on an unfair curve.