In the Shadow of Yoknapatawpha

At the beginning of 2012, I’d read only two of his short stories and made four unsuccessful attempts to read three of his novels, but then I managed to get into a Faulkner streak by completing As I Lay Dying, Intruder in the Dust, Light in August, Knight’s Gambit and Go Down, Moses in the first few months. Since then I’ve developed a passion for his work, admiring of course the prose but also it’s ability to evoke settings and people with the exactness of clearly-defined shadows in the afternoon sun. How it can suggest the psychology of an individual or a community without surrendering them completely to the...