The Sound and the Fury

Zusatztext “I am in awe of Faulkner’s Benjy! James’s Maisie! Flaubert’s Emma! Melville’s Pip! Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—each of us can extend the list. . . . I am interested in what prompts and makes possible this process of entering what one is estranged from.” —Toni Morrison   “No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul! the fiction where he put it is still right there.” —Eudora Welty Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury , Absalom, Absalom! , and As I Lay Dying , among many other  remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962. Klappentext 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 April Seventh, 1928. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, and they were hitting. Then they put the flag back and they went to the table, and he hit and the other hit. Then they went on, and I went along the fence. Luster came away from the flower tree and we went along the fence and they stopped and we stopped and I looked through the fence while Luster was hunting in the grass. "Here, caddie." He hit. They went away across the pasture. I held to the fence and watched them going away. "Listen at you, now." Luster said. "Aint you something, thirty three years old, going on that way. After I done went all the way to town to buy you that cake. Hush up that moaning. Aint you going to help me find that quarter so I can go to the show tonight." They were hitting little, across the pasture. I went back along the fence to where the flag was. It flapped on the bright grass and the trees. "Come on." Luster said. "We done looked there. They aint no more coming right now. Les go down to the branch and find that quarter before them niggers finds it." It was red, flapping on the pasture. Then there was a bird slanting and tilting on it. Luster threw. The flag flapped on the bright grass and the trees. I held to the fence. "Shut up that moaning." Luster said. "I cant make them come if they aint coming, can I. If you dont hush up, mammy aint going to have no birthday for you. If you dont hush, you know what I going to do. I going to eat that cake all up. Eat them candles, too. Eat all them thirty three candles. Come on, les go down to the branch. I got to find my quarter. Maybe we can find one of they balls. Here. Here they is. Way over yonder. See." He came to the fence and pointed his arm. "See them. They aint coming back here no more. Come on." We went along the fence and came to the garden fence, where our shadows were. My...

Product details

• Authors: William Faulkner
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.01.1991
• EAN: 9780679732242
• ISBN: 978-0-679-73224-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 205 mm x 18 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature