Just read The Sound and the Fury

Few days ago, i made a post where i talked about how much i started to like american literature. That same night, i get the news that my cousin is getting married in april. That made a bit confused, because there is a superstition in Bosnia that you should never have a wedding between two Eids, and since they are based on a lunar callendar, their dates are different every year, so this year the first one is in march and the second one is in may. And even tho most younger people (myself included) or people that are religious dont believe in this, many old people do. And having a wedding then will make you the most popular theme to gossip about. Then i ask her why they decided to do that, and she tells me that their families and friends that live in diaspora outside the country can come there then, because they are having time off work. At first i didnt know why, so i ask why dont they go on holidays in june or july like most people, and then she tells me that they arent taking time off, but they are getting it, because of Easter. For some reason i completely forgot that Easter exists. And then i remember something, why are bunnys and eggs symbols of Easter? Then i remember something else, The Sound and the Fury also takes place on Easter. Then i think of how nice it would be to read that on Easter. However, on the post about american literature i said that i dropped Sanctuary because of hard prose, and then someone commented that The Sound and the Fury might not be as hard as i might expect.

So i started reading The Sound and the Fury, a chapter a day. I also managed to maintain a suprising amount of self control, so i didnt thouch my phone until i read one chapter. I read the whole book in four months along with Faulkners appendix. Honestly, this was a lot easier to read than Sanctuary, even tho the construct is much more complex, but the prose is much easier. Plus it is a much better book. Now, did i understant everything? Absolutely not. Was it a good book? Absolutely. The second chapter was much harder to me than the first one, but the first one was also all except easy.

I plan on maybe rereading it around Easter, because i think i will get a clearer picture when i read it again. Other Faulkners books that i can read translated are Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom and Go down, Moses. In the next twi months i want to read The Pearl, The Pastures of Heaven and possibly finish Moby Dick. And during Ramadan i want to read The Conference of the Birds by Attar.

In spring i want to try to read As i lay dying in English. I would also like to read Walden, Cannery row and finally Grapes of Wrath.

P.S. Sorry for the longer text. I know that i yapped to much, but i cant help myself.

P.P.S. I wasnt invited to the wedding tho. I was just informed that it is happening.