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5 days ago · 01 The Sound and the Fury is considered one of William Faulkner’s greatest novels. 02 The novel is divided into four sections, each with a different narrator. 03 The first section, narrated by Benjy, is known for its stream-of-consciousness style. 04 The Sound and the Fury is renowned for its complex and challenging narrative structure.
5 days ago · Faulkner wrote about the past in novels such as The Sound and the Fury, Light in August and Absalom Absalom, which I first read and that blew me away when I was an undergraduate at Columbia College in New York in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. New York was the best thing about Columbia.
1 day ago · William Faulkner returned to the U.S. in December 1918. For the next three decades he wrote and published some of the most innovative and brilliant novels in American literature – including The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Go Down Moses. In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel prize in literature.
4 days ago · I recently saw an excellent production of Macbeth, which got me thinking a bit more about these similarities. No one understands people better than Shakespeare did, and so here are my top five project learnings from Macbeth. 1. ‘We’ve come this far, so we’ll finish’ isn’t a valid decision.
1 day ago · But this is not the Southern Gothic horror of Faulkner’s freeform yet remote The Sound and the Fury or the lighthearted and abjectly terrifying Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires. This is a cultural, geographic horror far more terrifying because it’s based on something real.
4 days ago · I’d just read William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury — another tome about another endearingly screwed-up family at the behest of a boy on whom I was nursing a massive (unrequited) crush and was eager to read something similar.
3 days ago · William Faulkner's 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury" was centered around a Southern family named the Compsons. The story was four different narratives viewing the decline of the Southern aristocratic Comspon family.
