The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. - The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." --from The Sound and the Fury
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." --from The Sound and the Fury
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This book was difficult to read without an introduction into what was going on or what to expect with the odd writing style. As you are thrown into the outlook of a mentally disabled man child right off the bat without warning, the craziness of the cognitive thinking baseline for the story, instead of a regular timeline of events. But after finishing the story (i do have to admit that without this being part of a book club i probably would never have finished it) and reading the first part of this story twice, I think i understand it better. I think the whole point of this book was to make you feel the frustrations, despair, and out of control of the situations as the characters were. Effect achieved. Once i started to realized that and figured out what was going on with the time line of the story by notice of the italics, the story wasn’t so difficult and i was able to just go alone with its flow. Then the change in the second chapter of Quentin and his constant anxiety along with his cognitive thinking story line with sentences that just blurred into one another with no punctuation. It was definitely a different type of story, where what happened wasn’t so much of the point as the constant frustration of each persons lives and how we are all just characters in a never ending tragedy. Definitely a book that needs a second read to really understand what all was going on in this story.
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