DaveNash3 reviewed The hamlet by William Faulkner
Review of 'The hamlet' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Faulkner's lovely prose keeps going and keeps the reader going through a series of stories and tales loosely connected around 'the hamlet' and it's eventual master Flem
Snopes.
Starting with the tale of its antebellum master and plantation, Faulkner tells his tales through a series of literary genres - Southern Gothic (of course), the Victorian novel, stream of consciousness, the tall tale, the treasure hunt, the joke, and the potboiler. To these literary forms, Faulkner adds a memorable cast of characters from the most outrageous rural county in turn-of-the-century Mississippi.
Flem Snopes, the protagonist, doesn't say much or appear for much of the novel. His mystery and Faulkner's prose led me to buy the second book in this Snopes trilogy. Looking forward to more of the same