William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1929

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

The Sound and the Fury (New York: Cape & Smith, 1929) is the fourth of William Faulkner’s nineteen novels and the second of fourteen that he set in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, the Mississippi town and county he created in his fiction. The novel is his first mature work and the one he often claimed in later years to be his favorite. Written over a period of approximately six months, from April to October, 1928, the novel is a complex experiment in form combining first-person and third-person narratives.

The novel primarily depicts the interactions of members of the Compson household, a Southern aristocratic family in decline, on the three days of Easter weekend, 1928, but it also portrays the significant …

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "The Sound and the Fury". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 August 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7787, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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