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The Sound and the Fury
is a novel written by the American author
William Faulkner
. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as
stream of consciousness
, pioneered by 20th century European novelists such as
James Joyce
and
Virginia Woolf
. Published in 1929,
The Sound and the Fury
was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful. In 1931, however, when Faulkner's sixth novel,
Sanctuary
, was published—a sensationalist story which Faulkner later claimed was written only for money—
The Sound and the Fury
also became commercially successful, and Faulkner began to receive critical attention.
In 1998, the
Modern Library
ranked
The Sound and the Fury
sixth on its list of the
100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
.
Contents
[
] Plot
The Sound and the Fury
is set in the fictional
Yoknapatawpha County
. The novel centers on the
Compson family
, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the thirty years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically. The novel is separated into four distinct sections. The first, April 7, 1928, is written from the perspective of Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a 33-year-old man with severe mental handicaps. Benjy's section is characterized by a highly disjointed narrative style with frequent chronological leaps. The second section, June 2, 1910, focuses on
Quentin Compson
, Benjy's older brother, and the events leading up to his suicide. In the third section, April 6, 1928, Faulkner writes from the point of view of Jason, Quentin's cynical younger brother. In the fourth and final section, set a day after the first, on April 8, 1928, Faulkner introduces a
third person omniscient
point of view
. The last section primarily focuses on Dilsey, one of the Compson's black servants. Jason is also a focus in the section, but Faulkner presents glimpses of the thoughts and deeds of everyone in the family.
The reader may also wish to look in
The Portable Faulkner
for a four-page history of the Compson family. Faulkner said afterwards that he wished he had written the history at the same time he wrote
The Sound and the Fury
.
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