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Grover Gardner
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Gabra Zackman
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
Cover photograph: © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner.
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My God, this is a depressing novel. Every word Faulkner writes, every memory that is explored, every action in the novel is distilled into a lingering, oppressive, sadness that is as omnipresent as the honeysuckle Quentin so hated.I started off enjoying the novel; I liked the experimental way Faulkner tries to convey the confused mind of Benjy. As someone who grew up with and spent years working with severely mentally disabled adults, I felt Faulkner honestly captured the state of mind of someone who is almost totally unable to experience rational and unselfish thought.
The second chapter, too, was quite beautiful but at times was nearly impenetrable. Pretty much only the scene with the little girl, when his mind stops wandering and he focuses only on finding her home, really seemed to have much of an impact for me. Everything else - the broken watch, his drunken father's philosophical ramblings, his time with Caddy - seemed ... distant. Distant is the best way I can describe it from a reader's point of view. I never felt like I was part of Quentin's experiences even though we spend so much time in his mind. He was no Bloom.
The final two chapters were straightforward enough. We learn many of the previously mysterious details that Benjy's and Quentin's minds could not clearly articulate (or were unwilling to articulate). And Jason was a wonderful character - the best in the book. Faulkner certainly has created one of the great characters in literature with Jason.
But what does this all add up to? Yes, the novel is about the south and the south's decline, but what South? Was there a time when people did not behave badly, were devious, cheats, liars, manipulators, and every other sin you can imagine? Maybe there were times in the Compson family when they were more outwardly respectable, but how do we really know those "better" people were actually any better? Is Faulkner so nostalgic for a long forgotten time that he actually believes we've all degenerated in our time?
I doubt Faulkner was so naive or sentimental. He write a book in which the main characters are all flawed and fallen ne'er–do–wells, who all long for a time when things were better and resent the present because it didn't turn out the way they wanted it too. Adults who haven't really ever grown up. In a way he wrote a warning against sentimentality, against seeing the past with thick rose colored glasses because if you keep trying to compare yourself against an impossible standard you will only disappoint yourself or, if you're smart, just run away from your entire family.
From that point of view, then, this isn't a "southern" novel bemoaning the end of one specific time and culture of Faulkner's love that will unfortunately never return, he's trying to warn us from falling into the cycle of always going back to the past. If your mind is always full of how things were and how things used to be then you will miss every opportunity to better yourself tomorrow. The Compson's totally fell apart because they could not come to terms with reality.
Yet even with such an analysis, I just could not get into this novel. I really wanted to, but you have to approach every work of art from the perspective of how it effects you personally and this novel just made me feel sad after having witnessed so much misery on every page.
A warning against sentimentality
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I never thought I could read this book; I tried 20, 10 years past. I could not understand what the heck was going on, the characters, the setting in time or even why I should be reading it, besides wanting to read an icon, author and title, in my Mississippi.
I finally got the gumption to go for it.
For me, it took listening, reading sometimes twice, and a companion guide.
I must say there are definitely rewards, not the least of which is gaining the satisfaction of reading this classic about a dysfunctional Mississippi family at the turn of the 20th century.
Go for it! Super exercise for the brain!!
Twilight-colored smell of honeysuckle
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Turns out Faulkner is fairly accessible.
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Speechless..
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Sound and the Fury
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streams of consciousness
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Tread carefully. Minefields aplenty.
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If you could sum up The Sound and the Fury in three words, what would they be?
Challenging, rewarding, haunting.What other book might you compare The Sound and the Fury to and why?
The stream-of-consciousness style of narration might remind listeners of James Joyce's works, but the different narrators make this work incomparable.Which scene was your favorite?
The encounter between Jason and Dalton Ames.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No.Any additional comments?
I don't think that I could have made it through this novel without the excellent narration by Grover Gardner.A fantastic performance of a fantastic novel
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A classic indeed
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This book is free association type narrative and switches speech patterns, cultural ideas, status in society, etc of the various families to tell their tales. This is gross oversimplification. But those tales are wrought with anxiety or simplicity or elitism or despair. Not at all a happy story. Seems to be reflections by an author experiencing cultural chaos in one section of the country.
An author of his times
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