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Hamlet (Paperback)

by William Faulkner (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage International Ed edition (1 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679736530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679736530
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 466,234 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Traces the growing power of Flem Snopes, a white-trash farmer, in the Mississippi town of Frenchman's Bend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff!, 14 Nov 1997
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Terrific prose about a modern day Tchichikov (a la Gogol) called Snopes and how he brow beats his way into the small village of Frenchmen's Bend. The movie "The Long Hot Summer" with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, was loosely based on this book. Check it out.
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1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Page upon page of unintelligible gibberish, 2 Mar 1999
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I think the people who revere Faulkner so much are either suffering from mass hysteria, or have bought into this "Faulkner is God" myth and don't have the intellectual integrity to admit that he's nothing more than a good writer who frequently littered his prose with unintelligible gibberish. It must have become fashionable in literary circles at one point to praise Faulkner, and since then people have become afraid to appear uninformed and announce that the EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.

This book, just like _The Sound and the Fury_, is bursting with pages of prose where you just cannot tell what is going on. Long confusing sentences that wind up meaning nothing, plot holes large enough to drive a truck through with not even a feeble attempt at logical explanation, and on and on.

Come now, honest fans of literature. Repeat after me. Faulkner was an overrated hack.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the most rewarding Faulkner, 13 Jun 2008
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Divided into 4 parts and reworked from a number of short-stories written by the author dating right back to the 1920s, The Hamlet covers the arrival of the Snopes clan into Frenchman's Bend and how Flem Snopes becomes a force to be reckoned with in Faulkner's Yokanaptawpha County.

The Hamlet is a difficult book to read, and not just in the usual manner of Faulkner's labyrinthic syntax and flowing poetic prose - though it is certainly often difficult here to tell one member of the Snopes clan from another, just as much as it is following exactly what is going on for long periods at a time. What is difficult rather is how different it all seems from the mythology of other Faulkner novels, lacking the familiar historical references to the Civil War, to Colonel Sartoris, the Compsons or the Sutpens.

With The Hamlet (continued in The Town and The Mansion), we see rather the seeds of another generation forming - not a separate one, as the Snopes crop up now again in other Faulkner novels, but one that tucked away in Frenchman's Bend has little interest in Jefferson society, and with whom family ancestry and name no longer carry weight and influence. The old world is changing and the Snopes represent a new breed, paving the way for a more mercenary world, where it is every man for himself, a new generation that is quick to enter into litigation or quick to pull a trigger to see justice done.
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