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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

Summary

The decline of the Compson family in the American South is narrated four times from different perspectives, including that of Benjy, a man with an intellectual disability, and told through extreme shifts in chronology. Faulkner's breakthrough novel.

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William Faulkner

American novelist and Nobel laureate (1897–1962) whose work is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. He pioneered complex narrative techniques including stream of consciousness, non-linear time, and multiple narrators.

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Published
1929
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William Faulkner