福克纳自己对《押沙龙,押沙龙!》是相当重视的。他曾对一朋友说,这是“有史以来一个美国人所写过的最好的小说。”事实上,这也不是福克纳个人的看法。许多美国评论家、文学史家都认为这是福克纳作品中最重要,也是最复杂、深奥,最具史诗色彩的一部。 Faulkner himself placed so much emphasis on “Absalom and Absalom!” He told a friend that it was “the best novel ever written by an American.” In fact, this is not Faulkner’s own opinion. Many American critics and literary historians consider this as the most important, the most complicated, the most profound and the most epic one in Faulkner’s work.