An early masterpiece by legendary novelist William Faulkner, ‘The Sound and the Fury’ helped put Faulkner on the literary map. An audacious novel filled with nonlinear storytelling, time jumps, digressions and multiple viewpoints from a number of different narrators, it is the story of the fall of a Southern aristocratic family – the Compson’s – told through the eyes of the three Compson sons: Benjy, Quentin and Jason.
Often employing a stream of consciousness style, Faulkner focuses the story primarily on three days in April of 1928 (Easter weekend) as his narrators relate the same series of events from different perspectives. A challenging, modernist novel, it has been hailed for almost a hundred years as one of the finest books to come out of the American South and was the launching point of William Faulkner’s unparalleled career. Faulkner would go on to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Literature and the Nobel Prize for Fiction in 1949.
‘The Sound and the Fury’ is presented here in its original and unabridged format.
About the author
William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) was a Southern American novelist and short story writer whose works were often set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County (based on Lafayette County, Mississippi where Faulkner spent most of his life). One of the most celebrated authors in American history, Faulkner wrote two novels which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (‘A Fable’ (1954) and ‘The Reivers’ (1962)) and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Born and raised in Mississippi, Faulner joined the Royal Canadian Air Force to fight in World War I but never saw active combat (though he did return to Mississippi with made-up war stories.) A college dropout, he eventually moved to New Orleans where he began his writing career with ‘Soldier’s Pay’ in 1925. Soon after, he returned home to Oxford, Mississippi where he completed his first ‘Yoknapatawpha County’ book, ‘Sartoris’ in 1927. His reputation as one of America’s greatest writers was solidified by the publication of both ‘The Sound and the Fury’ in 1929 and, the following year, ‘As I Lay Dying.’ Soon Hollywood beckoned and Faulkner began working as a screenwriter on such classic films as ‘To Have and Have Not’ and ‘The Big Sleep.’ After a long and prosperous career in which he won every conceivable award and accolade, Faulkner died from a heart attack following a fall from his horse in 1962 at the age of sixty-four. William Faulkner is esteemed as not simply one of the finest writers to come from the American South, but among the greatest authors in American history.
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