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- 284 pages
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Commenting on The Sound and the Fury Faulkner said, 'It's the book I feel tenderest towards. I couldn't leave it alone, and I never could tell it right...' Now acclaimed as one of the outstanding novels of this century, Faulkner's masterpiece centres on the degenerate Compson family. It opens with Benjy's tale - a tale 'told by an idiot' - in which time does not exist and parents, brothers, sister and and servants loom out of a fog and disappear again. Only in the later narratives told by Benjy's brothers does the family come into disturbing focus, and the novel begins to reveal itself as less a story than a moving image: an image of intense family relationships disintegrating in a vortex of lovelessness and extreme, sterile love.
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The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
- Language
- Released
- 1972
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Sound and the Fury
- Language
- English
- Authors
- William Faulkner
- Released
- 1972
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN10
- 014002087X
- ISBN13
- 9780140020878
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Family, USA, 20th century, American Literature, America, Race, Racism, Gothic, Siblings, Suicide, Depression, Nobel prize, Sagas, Modernism, American South, People with Disabilities, Southern Gothic, Experimental Literature, First-Person Narrative, Decline, Stream of Consciousness, Family Breakdown, Yoknapatawpha
- First published
- 1929
- Original title
- The Sound and the Fury
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Commenting on The Sound and the Fury Faulkner said, 'It's the book I feel tenderest towards. I couldn't leave it alone, and I never could tell it right...' Now acclaimed as one of the outstanding novels of this century, Faulkner's masterpiece centres on the degenerate Compson family. It opens with Benjy's tale - a tale 'told by an idiot' - in which time does not exist and parents, brothers, sister and and servants loom out of a fog and disappear again. Only in the later narratives told by Benjy's brothers does the family come into disturbing focus, and the novel begins to reveal itself as less a story than a moving image: an image of intense family relationships disintegrating in a vortex of lovelessness and extreme, sterile love.