The Sound And The Fury
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few novels in the American literary canon have so radically dismantled the conventions of storytelling as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, a devastating portrait of the Compson family's collapse set against the backdrop of the post-Civil War American South. Told across four distinct sections, each narrated from a radically different perspective — from the fragmented, time-shifting consciousness of the intellectually disabled Benjy, to the tortured introspection of his brother Quentin, to the cold bitterness of Jason, and finally through a third-person omniscient lens centred on the long-suffering Dilsey — the novel chronicles the disintegration of a once-proud Mississippi family with merciless psychological precision. Faulkner's prose is dense, allusive, and deliberately disorienting, mirroring the fractured minds of his narrators and demanding of the reader an active, almost collaborative engagement with the text. First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury stands as one of the towering achievements of literary Modernism, its stream-of-consciousness technique drawing comparisons to James Joyce while remaining unmistakably Faulknerian in its Southern Gothic atmosphere and its preoccupation with time, memory, and moral decay. This Franklin Library edition — illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey and introduced by the celebrated poet and critic Robert Penn Warren — presents the novel with the gravitas it so richly deserves, making it an essential and distinguished addition to any serious reader's collection. Warren's introduction illuminates the novel's dense architecture and enduring significance, offering a compelling entry point into one of literature's most rewarding, and most challenging, masterworks.
Author: William Faulkner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few novels in the American literary canon have so radically dismantled the conventions of storytelling as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, a devastating portrait of the Compson family's collapse set against the backdrop of the post-Civil War American South. Told across four distinct sections, each narrated from a radically different perspective — from the fragmented, time-shifting consciousness of the intellectually disabled Benjy, to the tortured introspection of his brother Quentin, to the cold bitterness of Jason, and finally through a third-person omniscient lens centred on the long-suffering Dilsey — the novel chronicles the disintegration of a once-proud Mississippi family with merciless psychological precision. Faulkner's prose is dense, allusive, and deliberately disorienting, mirroring the fractured minds of his narrators and demanding of the reader an active, almost collaborative engagement with the text. First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury stands as one of the towering achievements of literary Modernism, its stream-of-consciousness technique drawing comparisons to James Joyce while remaining unmistakably Faulknerian in its Southern Gothic atmosphere and its preoccupation with time, memory, and moral decay. This Franklin Library edition — illustrated by Kenneth Francis Dewey and introduced by the celebrated poet and critic Robert Penn Warren — presents the novel with the gravitas it so richly deserves, making it an essential and distinguished addition to any serious reader's collection. Warren's introduction illuminates the novel's dense architecture and enduring significance, offering a compelling entry point into one of literature's most rewarding, and most challenging, masterworks.