![]() You can feel reasonably confident, in voting for it, that nobody quite fathoms it enough to question its achievement. ![]() Of course, it’s the kind of book a person would put first in a poll like that. ![]() A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by a decisive margin - and the poll was conducted while looking back on a century in which a disproportionate number of the best American books were Southern - so to say that this novel requires no introduction is just to speak plainly. ![]()
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