|
|
 |
|
Viewing report
|
|
|
|
Caddy Compson. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 88
Since William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury was
published, critics and readers have been mesmerized
by Caddy Compson’s character. This book is for those
who are already familiar with the novel, it is an
invitation for those who have not read it yet; and,
nevertheless, it is a tribute to Faulkner’s
outstanding literary work.
Discussing Caddy’s character can be both rewarding
and frustrating: on one hand, you are given a greater
freedom to interpret her actions and the
conversations she carries out; on the other hand, the
reader has too much freedom and no secure points: all
statements can be questioned because Caddy is not
directly present to confirm or to confute any
interpretation. Caddy’s story can be told in one way
or the other, but she will always remain behind the
wall of narrations and interpretations. There can be
different approaches to Caddy’s character, but the
fact remains that nothing is to be taken for granted:
she is both an absent presence and a present absence,
thus everything written about her becomes another
attempt of telling the untold, of telling the
“non-telling” of Caddy’s story.
|
|
|
|
