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The Sound and the Fury

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Literature Atlas. "The Sound and the Fury." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-sound-and-the-fury.

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Literature Atlas. (n.d.). The Sound and the Fury. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-sound-and-the-fury

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@misc{literatureatlas-the-sound-and-the-fury,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {The Sound and the Fury},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/the-sound-and-the-fury},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Sound and the Fury is a novel by American author William Faulkner, published in 1929, Faulkner's fourth novel and the second set in Yoknapatawpha County, the first to feature the Compson family. Its highly experimental style, including its use of stream of consciousness and multiple unreliable narrators, are hallmarks of modernist literature, and its bleak, candid portrait of Southern life in the early twentieth century is paradigmatic of the Southern Gothic genre; the novel centers on Quentin, Benjy, Jason and Caddy Compson as their wealthy Mississippi family descends into chaos and disorder, its history revealed largely through sudden, unannounced flashbacks concentrated on a single weekend in 1928. Though it did not initially find commercial success, it grew in popularity after the publication of Faulkner's Sanctuary and was instrumental in helping him win the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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