The Sound and the Fury

In 1949, American writer William Faulkner (1897–1962) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. By that time, his beloved work – the novel "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), published twenty years earlier – had gained a reputation as a... modern classic; even today it stuns readers with the depth of the author's intention and the sophistication of its artistic form.
This parable about the search for meaning in a meaningless world immerses the reader in the chaos of the human soul, almost tangibly transmitted from the pages of the novel. Through the prism of time, vague memories, and lost illusions, the tragedy of the Compson family – heirs of the disappearing aristocracy of the American South – is revealed. Each of the four parts of the work presents a unique perspective on the world of one of the characters, intertwining the past and the present, coming together into a complex mosaic of human experiences and endlessly addressing the reader to reflections of Shakespeare's Macbeth, to which the novel owes its title: "Life... – a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Published in a brilliant translation by Osia Soroka.