Faulkner Collection: the Sound and the Fury
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"The Sound and the Fury" was written in 1929 and is one of Faulkner's most representative works. It is also the writer's favorite novel and the one he spent the most time on. It tells the story of the family tragedy of the Compson family, a declining landowner in the South. Old Compson was idle, addicted to alcohol and drink, and his wife was selfish, cruel, and resentful. The eldest son, Quentin, desperately clung to the so-called old traditions of the South. He felt so guilty that his sister Katie's dissolute life had insulted her status as a southern lady, and even committed suicide by drowning. The second son, Jason, was cold, greedy and selfish; This book revolves around Katie's fall, and through the inner monologues of the three sons, it reflects the impact of this event on different people's hearts and the changes in their hearts that resulted. Finally, the "limited perspective" of the first three parts is supplemented by the black maid Dilsey, who summarizes the whole book. The novel makes extensive use of multi-perspective narrative writing methods and stream-of-consciousness expression techniques, making it a representative work of stream-of-consciousness novels and even modern novels as a whole.
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