When William Faulkner Set the World Document for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Learn the 1,288-Phrase Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!
Picture by Carl Van Vechten, by way of Wikimedia Commons “How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling author has requested themselves whereas struggling by way of a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 discuss “My Faulkner.” Barth “reorchestrated” his literary heroes, he says, “looking for…