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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
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- Released
- 1972
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- William Faulkner
- Released
- 1972
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN10
- 014002087X
- ISBN13
- 9780140020878
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Family, Classics, USA, 20th century, Literary Fiction, American Literature, America, Race, Racism, Gothic, Siblings, Suicide, Depression, Nobel prize, Sagas, American South, Modernism, People with Disabilities, Southern Gothic, Experimental Literature, First-Person Narrative, Decline, Family Breakdown, Stream of Consciousness, 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.