Faulkner is not the writer you should read in autumn. Nor should he be read on peaceful spring days or during the cold winter days. I feel I can understand... Faulkner only when I read his works on a hot summer day, my body covered in sweat in the full sunshine. —Endō Shūsaku
@bernardtjoy Lovely, thanks for sharing this. For Cormac McCarthy, my prereq is good tequila, neat.
@bernardtjoy I will reread To Kill A Mockingbird when it is hot and near the end of summer and The Great Gatsby when it is very hot, but I can't read Jane Eyre in summer.
@bernardtjoy Totally agree. I read all my Faulkner in the parks of English summer. And when I went to work in Portugal, I remember exploring September deserted salt-flats feeling that was Faulkner country. The canal side bars confirmed it, but I was with-woman, so unable to dive in deeply!