Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
This edition of Faulkner's novel is accompanied by six new critical essays, a revised backgrounds section, notes on cultural and historical contexts and a revised bibliography.
Posted by ggggareth@abctales.com (1 year ago ) Oh My God! It was hard work but certainly worth the effort. I first came to William Faulkner through "As I Lay Dying", which has many of the same literary features, such as multiple narrators - but TSATF is tough. It doesn't help that the narrators aren't named in the chapter headings (as they are in AILD) so you have to work out from what is said just who is narrating - and when one of the narrators is educationally challenged and doesn't give any clue about timescales, it's hard to pin down the order of events; and THEN to find out late on that two of the characters share the same name...
You don't read Faulkner: you RE-read Faulker. Fantastic!
Posted by bkoplitz (1 year ago ) I think that I will need to read this book again soon. It was so incredibly rich, like fudge, that after a while it makes you feel a bit sick. The first few bites are delicious, and then it becomes overwhelming. Yeah, I think I will need to read it again. It was a bit of an intellectual workout. For examaple:
trying to figure out the punctuation when there wasnt any to begin with in the story at all
The story is mostly about the decline of the traditional Southern Aristocracy.
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