I think what it boils down to is that it's a representation of how Faulkner thinks his characters think. There's no way to judge the accuracy of that, as his characters aren't 'real people' in the sense that they exist outside of his story. All the same, if it's actively painful to read, he's not doing a good job of translating that to the page, either.
On the other hand, since it's pretty much always a case of 'how the author thinks his characters think', you can glean some interesting things about the really deranged writers from reading their stuff. You can't always get it from a single piece, but you'll see running themes through their body of work which, even if the author doesn't think that precisely, are very telling when you realize the author thinks other people think that.
Sorry for the incoherence -- I've caught the plague. ^^;;;; Decongestant is my friend, but only if I don't have to be linear or have an attention span.
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Date: 2007-02-10 09:19 pm (UTC)On the other hand, since it's pretty much always a case of 'how the author thinks his characters think', you can glean some interesting things about the really deranged writers from reading their stuff. You can't always get it from a single piece, but you'll see running themes through their body of work which, even if the author doesn't think that precisely, are very telling when you realize the author thinks other people think that.
Sorry for the incoherence -- I've caught the plague. ^^;;;; Decongestant is my friend, but only if I don't have to be linear or have an attention span.