Go Down, Moses

Synopsis

“i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ” —william faulkner, on receiving the nobel prize go down, moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in faulkner’s mythic yoknapatawpha county. From a variety of perspectives, faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.