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In the over-all design of the trilogy devoted to the origin, rise, and dominance of the Snopes family, The Hamlet is the first novel. The chronicle of the Snopeses, who took root in Yoknapatawpha County and proliferated through and beyond it until they outmaneuvered and overpowered a society and a culture that had little defense against their invincible rapacity, is continued in The Town and concluded in The Mansion.
The Hamlet describes how the Snopses first came to Frenchman's Bend, how Flem Snopes established himself there, and how, by his viciously ruthless pursuit of power, he destroyed the fabric of the entire village.
Shocking incident and wry humor lend arresting force to this book, which by itself is a distinct entity. As the first part of the Snopses triptych, it is a unit conceived and executed in an undertaking that, in its entirety, is an impressive addition to the slowly growing list of distinguished American novels.
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One of Faulkner's Masterpieces,
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"The Hamlet" is one of Faulkner's later works, and it belongs to his so-called "Snopes Trilogy." It deals with travails of the Snopes family, first introduced in "The Unvanquished." Various parts of the book can be read as independent stories, and some have even been published as such. The book, like most other Faulkner works, is highly literally and can be challenging to read if you are not used to Faulkner's narrative style. It is also characterized with rich language that verges on poetic. The language and the narrative fall short of the stream-of-consciousness style of many of the Faulkner's best known masterpieces, but not by much.The book's many characters go through significant personal transformations, and in the process leave a mark on the community that they live in. The psychological insight into various individual psyches and the analysis of their drives and motivations is nothing short of phenomenal. This novel is an impressive work of art, and as such it needs to be appreciated slowly and deliberately. It is certainly not a quick read.
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