The Sound and the Fury
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A great book. First published AD 1929, written in American English
The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1929. Faulkner's fourth novel, it is the second to be set in Yoknapatawpha County and the first featuring the Compson family, both of which would reappear in his later fiction. The novel's highly experimental style, including its use of stream of consciousness and multiple different unreliable narrators, are hallmarks of modernist literature. Its bleak and candid portrait of Southern life in the early 20th century is paradigmatic of the Southern Gothic genre.
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Where it is set
- Cambridge
United States
The Compsons send Quentin to Harvard University, paying for his tuition by selling Benjy's share of the family's land. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
- Mississippi
United States
The Sound and the Fury centers around Quentin, Benjy, Jason, and Caddy Compson as their wealthy Mississippi family descends into chaos and disorder. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
- Jefferson
Fictional, inspired by Oxford
The Compsons, a once-prosperous white family, live in Jefferson, Mississippi. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
