The Sound and the Fury

"The Sound and the Fury" is one of the most celebrated books of the 20th century, included in the list of the 100 best English-language novels according to "Time" magazine. The plot centers around the tragic story of the once... wealthy and influential southern family, the Compsons, who are now descending into decline. The events of the novel are presented through the perceptions of four different characters, each of whom reveals family dramas, betrayals, and internal conflicts in their own way. The realism, traditional for southern prose, is framed by the author's endless stylistic innovations, the most important of which is – almost for the first time since Shakespeare's "King Lear," the use of the stream of consciousness technique in English-language literature. In the novel, William Faulkner explores themes of loss, family disintegration, the destruction of traditions, and the search for meaning in chaos.