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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury (original 1929; edition 1954)

by William Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and  one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." --from The Sound and the Fury… (more)
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Author) (1929)

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3.5, this is not a favorite classic like many I've read this year. I enjoy Steinbeck's tone far more than Faulkner's. I can appreciate the different styles of narration here, and generally the dower gloomy message of moral decay comes through loud and clear. Just not one I'm likely to go back to. ( )
  KallieGrace | Jan 7, 2025 |
WF's scattered effort was well done, where he wrote in a conventional style. I appreciate the view from Benjy and Quentin's effort in college but the in and out punctuation was not necessary. WF writes so well and with such insight you could see and feel for these people. People from another world really. Another time at least. It was coincidence that I had just read a literary essay by T. Merton that prepared to rear The Sound and Fury. It helped.

I am now a William Faulkner fan and will start reading him like I did Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Harrison. ( )
  JBreedlove | Jan 5, 2025 |
I thought for sure I wasn't gonna care for this one in the first half; although I thought the stream of consciousness writing style was really inventive and felt ahead of its time, I felt like this book would require intense study and rereading to be appreciated, or even understood, at any level, which I did not feel any compulsion to do.

But the second half really helped put everything in context, and pulling back the curtain from the viewpoint of such a Grade A piece of shit like Jason Compson says something about the mindsey of the author. The decline of southern slave aristocracy, and the struggle of the mindset that came with that to fit in to a reconstructionist society, turned into a compelling read that I would consider revisiting in order to fully comprehend. ( )
  Tgoldhush | Dec 26, 2024 |
This is a diaphanous commentary on southern ideals … from family lines of work and the importance of an education whether it’s Harvard or any city college … but what we have is the impossibility of Ignorance the way only the lucky chosen are shielded from travesty … the classicism is in its dialogue that becomes a strange vertigo of words and islands of thought that pushes the boundaries of colloquial living I stress to say some vernacular becomes known and not known as well as understood through this retelling of a classic American myth ( )
  Sri-Hari-Palacio-MEd | Dec 21, 2024 |
As with far too many books lately, I just wasn't able to get into this story. I was close... I mean, I was finally able (sort of) to figure out what was going on. I just wasn't exactly *interested*. Maybe I'll come back to it again sometime....? ( )
  trayceebee | Aug 23, 2024 |
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"El ruido y la furia" es una novela del escritor estadounidense William Faulkner, publicada en 1929. La novela es conocida por su compleja estructura narrativa y el innovador uso de múltiples perspectivas. Cuenta la historia de la familia Compson, una familia sureña aristocrática en decadencia.

La novela se divide en cuatro secciones, cada una narrada por un personaje diferente y que ofrece una visión subjetiva de la historia de la familia. La primera sección está narrada por Benjy Compson, un hombre intelectualmente discapacitado, y se caracteriza por una narración de flujo de conciencia. La segunda sección está narrada por Quentin Compson, hermano de Benjy, y revela sus atribulados pensamientos y su obsesión por el honor familiar. La tercera sección cambia a la perspectiva de Jason Compson, el hermano cínico y amargado, y la cuarta sección está narrada por Dilsey, una sirvienta afroamericana de la casa Compson.

La narración explora temas como el tiempo, la memoria, la decadencia y la desintegración de la aristocracia sureña. La familia Compson es descrita como profundamente disfuncional, lidiando con la pérdida, la tragedia y el cambiante panorama social y económico del Sur de Estados Unidos a principios del siglo XX.

Uno de los acontecimientos clave de la novela es el declive de Caddy Compson, la hermana de los tres hermanos, cuya promiscuidad y fracasos matrimoniales contribuyen a la caída de la familia. A medida que se desarrolla la narración, los lectores son testigos de la desintegración de la familia y de las trágicas consecuencias de sus decisiones.

"El ruido y la furia" es célebre por las técnicas narrativas experimentales de Faulkner y su exploración de las complejidades de la experiencia humana. Se considera una obra maestra del modernismo y una obra desafiante pero gratificante que ahonda en los entresijos de la memoria, la conciencia y el paso del tiempo.
 
Escribir este libro foi para min como aprender a ler, coma se me achegase á linguaxe, ás palabras, co mesmo respecto e coidado de quen se achega á dinamita". Así describe William Faulkner (New Albany, 1897-Oxford, 1962) a súa experiencia con O ruído e a furia, a súa cuarta novela, publicada en 1929. A historia da ruína e decadencia da familia Compson, no Sur dos EUA, segue a representar para o lector de hoxe ese mesmo desafío, o da literatura como reinvención da linguaxe. Ao tempo, é un magnífico exemplo do pulo que posúe unha narración inspirada na vida, ese "conto contado por un idiota, cheo de ruído e de furia, que nada significa", segundo deixou dito Shakespeare en Macbeth.
 

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The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character's voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner's masterpiece and  one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." --from The Sound and the Fury

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"Once a bitch, always a bitch."
I prefer Benjy.
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