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The Sound and the Fury

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First published: 1929
Pages: 227

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About this book

Faulkner traces the slow collapse of the Compson family, once proud Mississippi gentry, through four narrators whose voices could hardly be more different. The first belongs to Benjy, who has no sense of time; the second to Quentin, a Harvard student unable to let go of his sister Caddy; the third to the bitter, grasping Jason; and the last settles on Dilsey, the Black servant who holds the ruined household together. The fractured, stream of consciousness telling asks readers to assemble the story themselves, and the effort is part of its power. The title comes from Macbeth's speech about a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury.

About the author

William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897 to 1962) was an American novelist from Mississippi and one of the towering figures of modern literature. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize and two Pulitzers, setting most of his fiction in the imagined Yoknapatawpha County and pioneering the fractured, stream-of-consciousness style that defined it.