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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780679732242
ISBN: 0679732241
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: January 30, 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 30, 1991
Sales Rank: 1884
Studio: Vintage
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
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The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis: And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo. What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin
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Incontestable Fact: Any book that can't be understood without the aid of the author explaining it or some kind of synopsis derived from the author's explaination is a failure.
The truth is, only Faulkner himself understands this story. Even college perfessors rely on aids to teach this book.
Many of us down here on the 1 and 2 star level have said that this book is only regarded as a classic because of its stream of conscienceness style and we're absolutely right. I personally ... Read More
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This book is surely an American classic from one of our quintessential American novelists, but it is best appreciated by literature majors with an entire semester available to study it. Faulkner's use of literary devices like the unreliable narrator and stream-of-consciousness prose is highly compelling, with great results from fractured personality types like the mentally handicapped (Benjy), the disturbed (Quentin), and the hate-filled (Jason). Faulkner was a brilliant observer of the deteriorating state ... Read More
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William Faulkner compels his readers to think, and sometimes to think mightily. This is one of his books that underscores mightily. The reader will be richly rewarded in availing himself of this masterpiece.
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The Sound and the Fury / 0-679-73224-1
Difficult and complex, The Sound and the Fury details the slow decline of the American South through the metaphor of the fictional Compson family. This book is so complex and rewarding because Faulkner introduces the concept of the unreliable narrator - the book is alternately narrated by three brothers, one mentally retarded, another depressed and suicidal, and the third arrogant, cruel, and vicious. Because of this, our impressions of the Compson family ... Read More
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The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner's novel about the decline of a Southern family, has been enthroned in the pantheon of English literature, primarily because of Faulkner's use of stream of consciousness.
By beginning with the mentally-retarded Benjy as narrator, Faulkner assures that the reader has virtually no idea what's going on (other than that Caddy smells like trees) for the first quarter of the book. Quentin's section isn't much better. In both cases, Faulkner jumps around chronologically ... Read More
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