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The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness . Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
The Sound and the Fury has an approval rating of 22% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 4.5/10. [15] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 38 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally unfavourable reviews". [16]
Quentin Compson is a fictional character created by William Faulkner.He is an intelligent, neurotic, and introspective son of the Compson family.He is featured in the classic novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! as well as the short stories "That Evening Sun" and "A Justice".
The 1983 Guinness Book of World Records says the "Longest Sentence in Literature" is a sentence from Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,288 words (the record has since been broken). [9] The sentence can be found in Chapter 6; it begins with the words "Just exactly like Father", and ends with "the eye could not see from any point".
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$1.7 million (est. US/Canada rentals) [2] The Sound and the Fury is a 1959 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt . It is loosely based on the 1929 novel of the same title by William Faulkner .
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