The Futuristic Cubism Of Absalom, Absalom!--William Faulkner's Technique Of Multiple Points Of View

William Faulkner is one of the most widely studied American authors of our time. Of all his works, his ninth novel, Absalom, Absalom!, has received more critical attention than any other, with the possible exception of the Sound and the Fury. Countless numbers of critical essays and chapters in books have examined this dense, powerful novel in which Quentin Compson in the early twentieth century seeks to know and understand the events and motives surrounding Thomas Sutpen and his doomed family in the nineteenth century.In this thesis the technique of multiple points of view used by Faulkner in the novel of Absalom, Absalom! is compared with that used by the Cubists and Futurists in their artworks, and the author points out their similarities both in the structure and in the aesthetic effects achieved. On the other hand, by analyzing the technique of multiple points of view used in the novel of Absalom, Absalom!, the author illustrates how Faulkner tries to let the reader get the "truth" by having his or her own "fourteenth image" of the "blackbird" of the story itself after having got the "thirteen ways" of looking at it by the four different narrators of the story.