“The rules Faulkner doesn’t ignore in this novel he tends to obliterate. The plot, for instance. There is none.”

John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead, writes a foreword to a new Modern Library edition of “Absalom, Absalom!” Read it in the New York Times. 
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