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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.
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".
Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen. Absalom, Absalom!, along with The Sound and the Fury, helped Faulkner win the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 1949. [2]
Principally depicted in The Sound and the Fury and in its appendix, they also make appearances in Absalom, Absalom! and stories such as "That Evening Sun". The family name is also referred to briefly in the opening chapter of Requiem for a Nun. Faulkner traced their genealogy from 1699 to 1945. [1]
That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 in the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". The story was originally published, in a slightly different form, as "That Evening Sun Go Down" in The American Mercury in March of the same year. [1]
William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature.. William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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]