The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is made up of undifferentiated streams of consciousness that ultimately turn out to be the inner voices of a family's siblings. Its construction is so masterful that the last sentence refers the reader back to the first one, as any perfect work of art might do.Sound has the...
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The Sound and the Fury is made up of undifferentiated streams of consciousness that ultimately turn out to be the inner voices of a family's siblings. Its construction is so masterful that the last sentence refers the reader back to the first one, as any perfect work of art might do.Sound has the earmarks of a modern psychological study, although the book was published in 1929. It is a dramatic and harrowing tale of the Compson family's pathology—primarily in the form of incest and incestuous thoughts.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780679732242
Publish date: 28-01-1991
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Southern,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic,
Fiction
I hate giving this two stars--because Faulkner is brilliant, and I truly believe that this novel is an example of that. The problem? The Sound and the Fury is one of those great novels that is so complicated and shrewd that... I don't fully understand it. This definitely demands a reread. The narrat...
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I knew that I didn't like Faulkner when we read Absalom, Absalom at UVic, so I should have known that I wouldn't like this one. I gave it an honest effort, but just couldn't do it.
It was a pleasure to read, great story with great expressions, it'll keep you wondering what's next.It was defenitely a good book :)
How can you like a book when you hate almost all of the characters? I started off liking some of them, or didn't fully realize I hated them until I read third section which is told from the perspective of Jason, likely the biggest loser I have ever encountered in real or literary life. He's a self-p...
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