I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

Book Review

Group: 11-7CHI20
Student: Ikromov Islom
Subject: Modern literature
Checked by: Lola Jalilova
Book review : “The sound and the Fury” by William Cuthbert Faulkner

The Sound and The Fury

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.” –The Sound and the Fury
Introduction
William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.
The majority of his works are set in his native state of Mississippi. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." Faulkner has often been cited as one of the most important writers in the history of American literature. Faulkner was influenced by European modernism, and employed stream of consciousness in several of his novels.
Thesis
The Sound and the Fury, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1929, that details the destruction and downfall of the aristocratic Compson family from four different points of view. Faulkner's fourth novel, The Sound and the Fury is notable for its nonlinear plot structure and its unconventional narrative style.
The Sound and the Fury is set in Jefferson, Mississippi, in the first third of the 20th century. Over the course of the 30 years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.
The Sound and the Fury is divided into four sections. The first three are presented from the perspectives of the three Compson sons: Benjamin (“Benjy,” born Maury), the “idiot”; Quentin, the suicidal student; and Jason, the failed businessman. The fourth section has a third-person omniscient narrator. All but the second section are set in fictional Yoknapatawpha Country, Mississippi in April1928.