The Sound and the Fury
Book description
A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
With an introduction by Richard Hughes
Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century.…
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While no one would call Faulkner’s 1929 masterpiece “a surprisingly accessible read,” it remains a landmark of modernism and one of the finest examples of stream of consciousness prose. Faulkner takes readers deep into the minds of his perspective characters, showing the ways they think in real-time as they navigate a day while consumed by past traumas, unstable identities, and inherited historical burdens.
From Jim's list on American novels that mess with time.
The Sound and the Fury offers the ultimate use of multiple perspectives, what might be called the bible of the form (along with Kurosawa’s groundbreaking film Rashomon). The tragedy of the Compson family is expressed through the stream-of-consciousness, non-linear, very unreliable voices of four characters—Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Dilsey. Navigating your way through the narration can feel like solving a difficult puzzle, but the payoff is incredibly rewarding.
I’ve read this modern masterpiece three times, and I feel as if I haven’t yet fully read it. It’s a devastating novel filled with such depressing subjects as racism, suicide, misogyny,…
From Jason's list on exploring single events from multiple perspectives.
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