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# Explores complex time narrative Nobel Prize-winning text Classic literary masterpiece The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

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- • **Master the Art of Time:** Navigate a groundbreaking narrative structure that challenges linear time perception.
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## Overview

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text is a Nobel Prize-winning novel by William Faulkner, celebrated as one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century. This definitive edition features the corrected text and Faulkner’s original appendix, offering readers a complex, multi-narrative exploration of time, memory, and family tragedy through four distinct perspectives. A challenging yet profoundly rewarding read, it holds a top rank in American fiction anthologies and classic literature.

## Description

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. • The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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

Review: Poignant, Provocative, and Haunting - This is among the greatest, most mentally challenging, emotionally arresting novel I have ever read. If you want a novel to shatter your concept of the limits of literature and thus transform the way you read, look no further. This book haunts you. Here's the thing. You know that feeling you get when you hear a song or see a face that sparks some vague memory? The memory may have been a dream, or may have been something you saw in a movie. It might well have been something that never actually happened to you, but was some fantasy you had years ago. Maybe there's even a physical reaction? There is a connection, but you can't quite put your finger on it. Still, it occupies your mind for an afternoon and inspires a train of thought you might not have had otherwise. That's good right? Of course. That's what you get with this book. you're trying to find that connection. The more important themes here have less to do with the post-reconstruction era/turn of the century south, and more to do with a broader examination of time and history as it relates to the human/family experience. This is a book that unfolds like nothing I've ever read. You're sort of lost for the first 70-100 pages. Our understanding of time as a linear process will confound your experience with the first section of the book. Benjy's narrative is difficult to be sure, but when the book is said and done, his is arugably the most memorable (though Quentin's honestly rivals it as a literary tour de force). In all, the book is divided into four sections with four different viewpoints. We see through Benjy the past, present, and future existing on a plane rather than a line; Quentin's inability to accept time's passing at all and his longing for the past (a past he was not necessarily a part of); Jason living only in the present and obsessing over an up to the minute existence; and finally Dilsey who seems the only member of the household with the ability to absorb the past as a part of the here and now, and lives without fear the future. This theme is explored through style. It's like reading a dream. The idea is to pull together all these moments, images, and broken bits of dialogue in order to get to the heart of that feeling I was talking about earlier. "where did this come from? why am I thinking about this? When will I be able to pull it together and figure it out?" And in fact, time's presence becomes so prevalent, that by the end of the book it practically becomes another character: "On the wall above a cupboard, invisible save at night, by lamplight and even then evincing an enigmatic profundity because it had but one hand, a cabinet clock ticked, then with a preliminary sound as if it had cleared its throat, struck five times" (341). So why this theme of time in The Sound and the Fury? Is it that the miseries of its people are so held hostage by it? The book is basically 425 pages of nightmare imagery and suffering with no sign of hope. Would it not be human nature to wonder when it would end? Was Faulkner trying to create an emotional reflection of this tragic Mississippi household through the mind's eye of the reader? I am convinced this to be true. Why else would he devote the first 90 pages to a mentally retarded narrator (Benjamin) who can't even feed himself? Why else would he commit the next 80 pages or so to a reasonably intelligent but obviously insane narrator who is about to kill himself (Quentin). And why would he devote a third section, to the "sanest" member of the family (Jason) and make him almost as incomprehensible as the previous two? Thankfully, we have the final section and an opportunity to see the household through the frankness and honesty of a black servant woman's eyes (Dilsey). Though ironically, Faulkner does not grant her narrator status. Rather, as mentioned earlier, Dilsey's voice is heard through an omniscient narrator. The reasoning behind this is the stuff of research papers and the like, but I find it fascinating nonetheless. It is in Dilsey's section that the story finally comes together. All the battered fragments of the story cohere into a bruised understanding of what has transpired, though I was still lost in many of the details. Here, some of the horrid beauty of Faulkner's language emerges. In one scene, the narrator allows what would be considered an archetypal "window image" of beauty (In Romantic literature, for example) and transforms it into ugliness: "The window was open. A pear tree grew there, close against the house. It was in bloom and the branches scraped against the house and the myriad air, driving in the window, brought into the room the forlorn scent of the blossoms" (352). But perhaps my favorite line, involves the wailing of the idiot son Benjamin, and to me, represents the "Sound and the Fury" of this tragic family: "Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets" (359). This contradictory statement sums up the complexity, and evasiveness of the entire novel. Who better to symbolize the unseen ticking of the clock and the gradual deterioration of a family than the moaning of an idiot, who is simultaneously given the credit and dismissed all in the same sentence? Benjamin's sounds lead to other "furies" as well, but I'll not spoil it all for you. Seriously though, Grove has it right--no Southern author nails the plight of the post-Civil War South with more ferocity than Faulkner. It's as if the very air the characters breath has become tainted by the past. So if you feel like losing yourself in words that will horrify and confuse you, if you consider reading more than just a sally on the beach, then buckle your seatbelts and pick up The Sound and the Fury.
Review: Well worth reading - It's a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, so it's not standard easy reading. The best suggestion I got was to find notes or a summary of the characters and narrative first so you don't have to slowly figure it out for yourself as you read it. Each of the four sections is written from a different character's point of view as the narrator. The first section is the most difficult, and I liked the third section best (I found it to be funny). I can see that Faulkner did an excellent job of inhabiting the four separate narrators' characters. This is one of those books everyone should read, and I'm glad I did, it's just not easy.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #14,177 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in American Fiction Anthologies #227 in Classic Literature & Fiction #615 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 2,767 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poignant, Provocative, and Haunting
*by O***E on July 28, 2011*

This is among the greatest, most mentally challenging, emotionally arresting novel I have ever read. If you want a novel to shatter your concept of the limits of literature and thus transform the way you read, look no further. This book haunts you. Here's the thing. You know that feeling you get when you hear a song or see a face that sparks some vague memory? The memory may have been a dream, or may have been something you saw in a movie. It might well have been something that never actually happened to you, but was some fantasy you had years ago. Maybe there's even a physical reaction? There is a connection, but you can't quite put your finger on it. Still, it occupies your mind for an afternoon and inspires a train of thought you might not have had otherwise. That's good right? Of course. That's what you get with this book. you're trying to find that connection. The more important themes here have less to do with the post-reconstruction era/turn of the century south, and more to do with a broader examination of time and history as it relates to the human/family experience. This is a book that unfolds like nothing I've ever read. You're sort of lost for the first 70-100 pages. Our understanding of time as a linear process will confound your experience with the first section of the book. Benjy's narrative is difficult to be sure, but when the book is said and done, his is arugably the most memorable (though Quentin's honestly rivals it as a literary tour de force). In all, the book is divided into four sections with four different viewpoints. We see through Benjy the past, present, and future existing on a plane rather than a line; Quentin's inability to accept time's passing at all and his longing for the past (a past he was not necessarily a part of); Jason living only in the present and obsessing over an up to the minute existence; and finally Dilsey who seems the only member of the household with the ability to absorb the past as a part of the here and now, and lives without fear the future. This theme is explored through style. It's like reading a dream. The idea is to pull together all these moments, images, and broken bits of dialogue in order to get to the heart of that feeling I was talking about earlier. "where did this come from? why am I thinking about this? When will I be able to pull it together and figure it out?" And in fact, time's presence becomes so prevalent, that by the end of the book it practically becomes another character: "On the wall above a cupboard, invisible save at night, by lamplight and even then evincing an enigmatic profundity because it had but one hand, a cabinet clock ticked, then with a preliminary sound as if it had cleared its throat, struck five times" (341). So why this theme of time in The Sound and the Fury? Is it that the miseries of its people are so held hostage by it? The book is basically 425 pages of nightmare imagery and suffering with no sign of hope. Would it not be human nature to wonder when it would end? Was Faulkner trying to create an emotional reflection of this tragic Mississippi household through the mind's eye of the reader? I am convinced this to be true. Why else would he devote the first 90 pages to a mentally retarded narrator (Benjamin) who can't even feed himself? Why else would he commit the next 80 pages or so to a reasonably intelligent but obviously insane narrator who is about to kill himself (Quentin). And why would he devote a third section, to the "sanest" member of the family (Jason) and make him almost as incomprehensible as the previous two? Thankfully, we have the final section and an opportunity to see the household through the frankness and honesty of a black servant woman's eyes (Dilsey). Though ironically, Faulkner does not grant her narrator status. Rather, as mentioned earlier, Dilsey's voice is heard through an omniscient narrator. The reasoning behind this is the stuff of research papers and the like, but I find it fascinating nonetheless. It is in Dilsey's section that the story finally comes together. All the battered fragments of the story cohere into a bruised understanding of what has transpired, though I was still lost in many of the details. Here, some of the horrid beauty of Faulkner's language emerges. In one scene, the narrator allows what would be considered an archetypal "window image" of beauty (In Romantic literature, for example) and transforms it into ugliness: "The window was open. A pear tree grew there, close against the house. It was in bloom and the branches scraped against the house and the myriad air, driving in the window, brought into the room the forlorn scent of the blossoms" (352). But perhaps my favorite line, involves the wailing of the idiot son Benjamin, and to me, represents the "Sound and the Fury" of this tragic family: "Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets" (359). This contradictory statement sums up the complexity, and evasiveness of the entire novel. Who better to symbolize the unseen ticking of the clock and the gradual deterioration of a family than the moaning of an idiot, who is simultaneously given the credit and dismissed all in the same sentence? Benjamin's sounds lead to other "furies" as well, but I'll not spoil it all for you. Seriously though, Grove has it right--no Southern author nails the plight of the post-Civil War South with more ferocity than Faulkner. It's as if the very air the characters breath has become tainted by the past. So if you feel like losing yourself in words that will horrify and confuse you, if you consider reading more than just a sally on the beach, then buckle your seatbelts and pick up The Sound and the Fury.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well worth reading
*by D***D on March 15, 2014*

It's a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, so it's not standard easy reading. The best suggestion I got was to find notes or a summary of the characters and narrative first so you don't have to slowly figure it out for yourself as you read it. Each of the four sections is written from a different character's point of view as the narrator. The first section is the most difficult, and I liked the third section best (I found it to be funny). I can see that Faulkner did an excellent job of inhabiting the four separate narrators' characters. This is one of those books everyone should read, and I'm glad I did, it's just not easy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Genius" is an over-used term...but not as applied to Faulkner. Amazing.
*by L***E on December 2, 2010*

The Sound and the Fury has been sitting on my bookshelf for some months now. I've always wanted to dip my toe into the pool of Faulkner, but have been intimidated by the unilateral criticisms that he's difficult to follow...that's an understatement; he's incredibly challenging. But his writing, when he's writing linear passages...the language is beautiful, sensual and heartbreaking. And even when he's throwing irregular timeframes around...the payoff is worth the initial confusion. I agree with other reviewers that it helps to equip yourself with a 'cast of characters' for Sound and the Fury. I read every page of Benjy's section THREE TIMES (which, I've never done before) in order to grip fully what was happening. I also referred to Sparknotes (highly recommend) in-between re-readings for some insight into what I might've missed. Once you have the 'key' to unlocking the working of Benjy's mind, it is so much easier to follow. The genius of the Benjy chapter, and why I believe Faulkner chose to lead with it (risking alienating many readers...which only makes him more of a literary giant in my book) is that events and characters are presented with almost absolute objectivity. Seeds are planted and cultivated in later chapters, but the foundation of the story is fairly well cemented. But also, because Benjy's general understanding of everything is so limited, there are plenty of surprises to come when other narrators allude to the same events and people. This detached glimpse into the life of the family over these decades makes it possible to feel more deeply about them later on. The second chapter (Quentin) is the more confusing of the two, I believe, because of the heavy use of stream-of-consciousness. I'm not a fan of that device, with any writer. Gratefully, there was enough linear narration that I grasped what was going on, and when reading it I employed an old high school trick: when I come across passages in Shakespeare that I'm not understanding, I read through them quickly, refusing to dwell on the words, and usually come away with an understanding at least of the action. If that sounds pedestrian, well, maybe it is, but it works! (And liberates me to appreciate other passages of lyrical beauty which I CAN understand, not to mention the work as a whole). The final two chapters are far more approachable, and I found Jason's character to be deliciously villainous and tragic. What touched me most about Faulkner is his talent for understanding the workings of the human psyche. How on earth he was able to craft a fully credible, sympathetic character in Benjy (as opposed to a one-dimensional idiot) I'll never understand. His treatment of the black characters in the book, based on their speech patterns alone and heavy use of the "N" word could easily have thrown their characters into Uncle Tom territory. Instead, he treats them with respect, allowing some to be dignified and noble (Dilsey) and others simple and flawed (Luster), just as he does with the white characters (the juxtaposition between Caddy's empathy and her mother's narcissism...amazing). There are some who believe a book should stand alone on its merits without the need for companion materials in order to understand it. For me, if having some "help" with a book empowers me to squeeze out the most juice, to come away from it with a richer understanding of its themes and appreciation for its complexity and beauty, I am all for it. I probably won't be jumping headlong into "The Bear" anytime soon, because this was an intellectually exhausting read! But someday I'll return to Faulkner, because he's written what is now one of my favorite books of all time. It's truly a masterpiece.

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