by William Faulkner · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679732242
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«The Sound and the Fury» is the novel by William Faulkner, published by Vintage in paperback (326 pages, in English).
Novel portraying the decline of the Compsons, a family of ruined Southern aristocrats trapped in the past. Faulkner narrates through Benjy, Quentin, and Jason, with Caddy, the absent sister, as the central figure, and Dilsey as witness to the decline. Temporal leaps and fragmented voices are characteristic of this work.
Work originally published in 1929. This Vintage International edition presents the corrected text of The Sound and the Fury.
For readers of American literary classics and experimental narrative who appreciate a demanding read.
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.
