The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner English Literature Essay
Resume. THE SOUND AND THE FURY is the quintessential American high modernist text. For more than sixty years, but especially since its sudden "discovery" by readers and critics in the late 1940s and early 1950s, it has attracted the attention of most major critics and of almost every major critical movement. It's been a kind of litmus. One of America's most iconic writers, William Faulkner is an author who defies easy interpretation. A native of Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such classic novels as Absolom, Absolom and The Sound and The Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County one of the most memorable characters ever assembled in American literature. The fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, is home to many of Faulkner's novels set there. His most productive period. featured the publication of novels including The Sound and the Fury 1929, As I Lay Dying 1930, Sanctuary 1931, Light in August 1932, Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner. In many ways this was an experimental novel, using different narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author tells the same episodes from four different points of view, using a different style for each. The story concerns several members of a southern family, once wealthy landowners, but now struggling. The Sound and the Fury is a novel by American author William Faulkner. Various narrative styles are used, including stream of consciousness. The published The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel and was not immediately successful. But then Faulkner's sixth novel, Sanctuary, was published,