Irish Alibi
“The attempt to tell of the disintegration of a Southern family in the wake of Appomattox while keeping the story locked in the mind of a retarded eleven-year-old girl who was also mute would have challenged Faulkner himself. The language of the book was apparently a mode of communication one could imagine being invented by someone who had never heard the sound of another human voice. Or perhaps one couldn’t imagine that. It was difficult to keep disbelief suspended, and the author seemed to cha...llenge the reader more and more as the novel progressed—if progress be defined by the sequence of natural numbers to be found at the bottom of its pages. Not to finish the book would have seemed a moral fault to Roger, as if he had abandoned a Lenten penance. The obligatory sexual scenes ranged from self-abuse through rape to bestiality, and it was these that critics had praised to the skies, a judgment Roger neither shared nor wished to contest since that would have required dwelling on them.MoreLess
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