“The Sound and the Fury” William Faulkner (1929) Review | A difficult read but a masterpiece

★★★★★ A difficult read, difficult to understand what’s actually happening, but once you get a hang of it, and with a bit of research it’s gripping. Must read this again, now that I know the story.

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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner, 1929
464 pages
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A difficult read. 
The first chapter is written from the perspective of a disabled man, who is the fourth child of the family and it's not chronological, things come up as they come up in his mind, jumping around the time and repeating the same things, repeating his love for his sister.
Then it goes to the first son's perspective, then the second son's, then ends with no first-person narrator and concludes how the family has collapses.

Throughout the book things go back and forth and there is little explanation of what's actually happening or who's speaking, as if you are reading from the character's mind so you're supposed to follow with no description of events.

Though it's difficult, and I needed a synopsis from Wikipedia, it is gripping once you get a hang of it. 
Unique, for sure, and it's a sad story of a proud but dysfunctional family.
Must read this again, now that I know the story.

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🔽 Where to buy 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
The Sound and the Fury (Vintage classics)

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
L'urlo e il furore (Italiano)