Wittgenstein and Faulkner’s Benjy: reflections on and of derangement RU P E RT READ

I want in this paper to conjoin Wittgenstein’s (and Wittgensteinian) thinking to a particular piece of prose by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: William Faulkner. I am interested in Wittgenstein’s possible utility as a virtual literary critic. And especially, in using properly Wittgensteinian thinking in order to understand the philosophical lessons that I think great literature can yield for us.