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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 Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) [1] was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.
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.
Notes Ref. 1926 Soldiers' Pay: Boni & Liveright: Faulkner's debut novel. [3] 1927 Mosquitoes: Boni & Liveright [3] 1929: Sartoris† Harcourt, Brace: An abridged version of Flags in the Dust. The original manuscript was published posthumously by Random House on August 22, 1973. [4] 1929: The Sound and the Fury: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
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".
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Lafe – Lafe is a farmer who has impregnated Dewey Dell and given her $10 to get an abortion. Reverend Whitfield – Whitfield is the local minister with whom Addie had an affair, resulting in the birth of Jewel. Samson – Samson is a local farmer who lets the Bundren family stay with him the first night on their journey to Jefferson.
With his breakthrough novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929), he began to use stream of consciousness to portray a character's flow of inner thoughts. His books often are told from the point of view of several characters and contain accurately rendered colloquialisms combined with long sentences full of imagery and language that is sometimes surreal.