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Husband and wife Adam and Whitney Diehl team up to discuss a classic work of literature each Summer. Season 1 covers William Faulkner’s 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!. Season 2 covers Flannery O’Connor’s 1965 short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Season 3 covers Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1878 doorstop The Brothers Karamazov. Season 4 covers Virginia Woolf’s 1925 day-in-the-life novel Mrs. Dalloway.
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Absalom, Absalom! Episode 1--Rosa Coldfield: Narrator, Heroine, Victim, Fury?
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
In this first episode proper of Summer Reading with the Diehls Season 1, Adam Diehl and his wife Whitney discuss the first main character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom!: Rosa Coldfield. They analyze her place and purpose in the novel, her power as a narrator (and possibly as a heroine), and her predicament in regard to Thomas Sutpen (a.k.a. "demon"). Is she a persuasive voice in Quentin Compson's life?
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