Yeah, even though Harper Lee’s book is well written, she couldn’t hold a candle to Light in August, Absalom, Absalom, As I Lay Dying, or Sound and the Fury.
Faulkner will always be the brightest light in American literature, if not all literature. It’s that whole “the human heart in conflict with itself” stuff.
Well maybe you are a good person to tell me why Pantaloon in Black doesn’t get more praise and attention. I think it is one of Faulkner’s all time best. I have never read it without crying buckets, and I’m really not that emotional of a person. On top of the breathtaking prose, it’s one of the best insights into race relations if its day. Why is that silly story A Rose for Emily better known? [The writing isn’t silly, but it’s clear Faulkner had no clue what acrotomophilia is all about.]