Published on January 18, 2025 at 12:58 p.m. / Modified on January 18, 2025 at 1:19 p.m.
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The fury of America in a spectacle of hallucinatory fever and which comes at the right time. We would actually have preferred that the creation of Séverine Chavrier at the Comédie de Genève – starting this Saturday – was not as topical. But while Donald Trump is preparing to take the oath of office for the second time, while in Elon Musk’s country masculinism is running smoothly, while racism is still wreaking havoc, William Faulkner and his Absalon, Absalon!, published in 1936, offer a dizzying view of American evil.
Lire Absalon, Absalon!, it is to experience the rise of Thomas Sutpen, the arrival of this ambitious scumbag in Jefferson in 1833, his marriage to Ellen Coldfield, with whom he would soon have two children, Henry and Judith. He fulminates, he drips with greed, he gleams, all-powerful builder of his kingdom, this immense land bought from an Indian. But the Civil War broke out in 1861 and turned his world and his dynastic hopes upside down.
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