The Sound and the Fury

In 1949, American writer William Faulkner (1897–1962) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. By that time, the novel "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), published twenty years earlier, had gained a reputation as a modern classic, and it continues to amaze readers with the depth of the author's idea and the mastery of 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 lens of time, blurred memories, and lost illusions, the tragedy of the Compson family—heirs of the disappearing aristocracy of the American South—unfolds. Each of the four parts of the work presents a unique perspective on the world from one of the characters, where past and present intertwine to form a complex mosaic of human experiences, endlessly directing the reader to reflections on Shakespeare's Macbeth, to which the novel owes its title: "Life... is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Published in a brilliant translation by Osia Soroka.