Strange Remedy
I’m reading Light in August
Why Faulkner? Why stream of consciousness? Why southern stubbornness? It seems like a strange remedy to my reading attention deficit disorder. Maybe I just needed something to really sink my teeth into.
Bill Faulkner’s writing style is uniquely seductive. His narratives have a smooth flow that keeps me in its groove in spite of the sometimes creative vocabulary. Perhaps that’s due to his signature stream of consciousness technique that carries me into the minds of his characters: he presents his characters’ inner monologues and the subconscious thoughts they don’t know they’re thinking.
Complete immersion.
Learn Something
I pulled Light in August off the shelf for two reasons. 1) I was supposed to read it in 1996 for my honors English class, but I never read more than fifty pages (and not fifty consecutive pages, either). It seemed a good time to correct that, because: 2) I’m going to write my next novel in the third person, and I wanted to learn something about using the third person unironically.
I want to write a longer post on irony, but I’m going to save it, because this post has gotten quite long enough.
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