JasonKoivu

William Faulkner consistently delivered the sound and the fury of a prose so powerful, yet subtle, frugal on the one hand and almost extravagant on the other. Like Hitchcock's alluding, don't-show-all style, he gives you snippets of dialogue, flashes of images, and dosed emotion. Much of his most artistic and critically acclaimed work is that in which the narration is seen through the eyes of a child, churning through a story with the simplicity of childhood and all its wild snippets of understanding, where single images of scenes are etched upon the impressionable mind and little is fully comprehended. Yet even so, Faulkner excels at the creation of terrible men, overbearing and stubborn. Driven by an ill-fated history without future, perceived wrongs done to them and theirs, or an often almost impregnable moral code, these domineering father-figures stalk perpetually forward like a demon herding its flock of sin toward an awful and inevitable end.

Classics like "A Rose For Emily" and "Barn Burning" can be found elsewhere, but the main reason you want to check out this title is that it includes clips of Faulkner himself reading from his own work, as well as that of actors David Carradine and Deborah Winger.