by William Faulkner · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475300566
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«El sonido y la furia» is the novel by American writer William Faulkner, published by Ediciones Orbis in paperback (314 pages, in Spanish).
The novel portrays the decline of the Compsons, a family from the southern United States, through the voices of Benjy, Quentin and Jason, with Caddy as the central figure and the maid Dilsey. Faulkner uses interior monologues, shifts in narrator and temporal leaps to address memory, time and social decline.
This 1982 edition belongs to the Historia Universal de la Literatura collection (no. 25). «El sonido y la furia» was originally published in 1929 as The Sound and the Fury.
For readers of classic fiction and twentieth-century literature, with an interest in the American literary canon.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
