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  • From: "Beck, David A" <dabeck AT iupui.edu>
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:49:48 -0400

Agreed! I'd like to have seen C of D moved up, too. Wasn't someone
talking about making a movie based on Dunces? Can you imagine what the
Cohen brothers could do with that one.

-David



Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>:


Since Absalom, Absalom is my favorite Faulkner novel, I had no real
complaints (even if AKM is the one I keep coming back to). I
certainly agree, David, with the dread followed by relief regarding
Huck Finn. Just because Hemingway thought it was the greatest
doesn't mean the rest of us have to keep drinking that kool-aid. I
would've liked to have seen A Confederacy of Dunces moved up, by the
way. I forgot to mention that last night.

--Rhonda

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in
spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the
faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Walker Percy



Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:29:04 -0400
From: dabeck AT iupui.edu
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...

Hey Rhonda,

I have to (respectfully, of course) disagree. I was hoping that they
weren't going to put Huck Finn as number one. But I completely agree
with Absalom being number one; in fact, I'd go as far to say that it is
the great American novel. Your description of AKM fits Absalom as well
("the confluence of all American
> Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
> carrying a piece of it").

That's just my two cents. Both novels are great. But I would have
switched Last Gentleman in place of The Moviegoer. (Yes, I think my
letter ended up with yours.)

I'm interested in hearing what others think.

-David

Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>:

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> Thanks Karey. Looks like just about all of WP's fiction got mentioned
> (I didn't see Thanatos or LITR but I was skimming--I guess that's 2/3
> then). It's hard to argue with #1 and #2 except I'd flip their
> order. All the King's Men is the confluence of all American
> Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
> carrying a piece of it. But that's just me getting a little purple
> about it. It just doesn't get better than that, I say. Unfortunately,
> my survey must have gotten lost in the mail.
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> --Rhonda
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> "You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in
> spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the
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> Walker Percy
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> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
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