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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.
The second book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. [13] 1959 The Mansion: Random House The third book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. [14] 1962 The Reivers: Random House Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963. [14] 1973 Flags in the Dust† Random House Original manuscript of what became Sartoris, prior to extensive editing [15]
The Sound and the Fury (1929) In autumn 1928, just after his 31st birthday, Faulkner began working on The Sound and the Fury. He started by writing three short stories about a group of children with the last name Compson, but soon began to feel that the characters he had created might be better suited for a full-length novel.
Absalom, Absalom!, along with The Sound and the Fury, helped Faulkner win the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 1949. [2] In 2009, a panel of judges called Absalom, Absalom! the best Southern novel of all time. [3]
In 1929, Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury which chronicles Quentin's childhood in postbellum Mississippi as well as the last months of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University, before hurling himself off a bridge on June 2, 1910. Quentin's thoughts are articulated with Faulkner's innovative stream-of-consciousness ...
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In late 1926, William Faulkner, aged 29, began work on the first of his novels about Yoknapatawpha County. Sherwood Anderson had told him some time before that he should write about his native Mississippi, and now Faulkner took that advice: he used his own land, and peopled it with men and women who were partly drawn from real life, and partly depicted as they should have been in some ideal ...
The initial section of the book is about Faulkner's screenwriting period. [1] It includes an essay by Jerry Wald. [2] This section was as a method of providing background to the topic of adaptations. [3] the body text is in two parts. [2] The section includes information on films which Faulkner co-wrote the screenplays for. [4]