el otonyo del patriarca

even in the midst of a book purging (i finally let go of "the land and people of algeria"), it is not possible to get rid of copies of faulkner or garcia marquez no matter how hard to read they can be or how unlikely it is you will ever read them.

i defied fate and read. if each GM novel matched up to an F novel, this would represent the counterpart to "the sound and the fury" not because of any common theme but because of style. two obvious points to the reader of both: the use of stream of consciousness throughout (each chapter consisted of ~ 3 sentences with not a paragraph break in the entirety) and the use of arbitrarily shifting narrators. each time the story begins to be told from the first person, i (the reader) would think "ah ha!- now i understand who is narrating" only for the book to shift back to a half-conscious third person ramble of thoughts, some of which would repeat from time to time.