While I read this a while back, I delayed commenting until I could locate the passage I had in the back of my mind. In his essay "Publishing The Sound and the Fury," Ben Wasson quotes Faulkner:
"If I could only get it printed the way it ought to be with different color types for the different times in Benjy's section recording the flow of events for him, it would make it simpler, probably. I don't reckon, though, it'll ever be printed that way, and this'll have to be the best, with the italics indicating the change of events."
So using different colors in type does have a precedence in Southern literature, but only now does the technology allow it us to realize it.
Incredible. Thank you for all your kind words and the consideration given. Iβm elated that the book could be so understood and enjoyable.
Of course. It was my pleasure. Let me know when the next book comes out and Iβll review that one as well.
While I read this a while back, I delayed commenting until I could locate the passage I had in the back of my mind. In his essay "Publishing The Sound and the Fury," Ben Wasson quotes Faulkner:
"If I could only get it printed the way it ought to be with different color types for the different times in Benjy's section recording the flow of events for him, it would make it simpler, probably. I don't reckon, though, it'll ever be printed that way, and this'll have to be the best, with the italics indicating the change of events."
So using different colors in type does have a precedence in Southern literature, but only now does the technology allow it us to realize it.
This is an excellent connection! Thank you for the comment.
Great review. Havenβt finished it yet, but it is a trip. Has some really brutal imagery but nothing so far that reads exploitative