The Sound And The Fury
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few novels in the American literary canon shatter and reassemble the reader's perception of time, memory, and grief quite like William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Set in the crumbling world of the Compson family — once a proud Southern dynasty now spiraling into moral and financial ruin — the novel chronicles four days in their disintegration through four radically distinct narrative voices, beginning with the fragmented stream-of-consciousness of Benjy, the family's intellectually disabled youngest son, whose anguished impressions of loss anchor the entire work. Faulkner's masterwork stands as one of the defining achievements of literary modernism, drawing comparisons to Joyce and Woolf in its fearless dismantling of linear storytelling. Each section peels back another layer of the Compson tragedy — through the tortured idealism of Quentin, the bitter cynicism of Jason, and finally the grounded clarity of the family's Black servant, Dilsey — constructing a portrait of a South in irreversible decline and a family consumed by its own obsessions. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner wrote with a ferocious interiority that demands — and richly rewards — the reader's full surrender. The question that lingers long after the final page: whose sound, and whose fury, does the title truly name?
Author: William Faulkner
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few novels in the American literary canon shatter and reassemble the reader's perception of time, memory, and grief quite like William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Set in the crumbling world of the Compson family — once a proud Southern dynasty now spiraling into moral and financial ruin — the novel chronicles four days in their disintegration through four radically distinct narrative voices, beginning with the fragmented stream-of-consciousness of Benjy, the family's intellectually disabled youngest son, whose anguished impressions of loss anchor the entire work. Faulkner's masterwork stands as one of the defining achievements of literary modernism, drawing comparisons to Joyce and Woolf in its fearless dismantling of linear storytelling. Each section peels back another layer of the Compson tragedy — through the tortured idealism of Quentin, the bitter cynicism of Jason, and finally the grounded clarity of the family's Black servant, Dilsey — constructing a portrait of a South in irreversible decline and a family consumed by its own obsessions. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner wrote with a ferocious interiority that demands — and richly rewards — the reader's full surrender. The question that lingers long after the final page: whose sound, and whose fury, does the title truly name?