by William Faulkner
It has been
written that this obscure way of telling a story was the only way to do it. In
any case the result is this masterpiece.
Born in
Mississippi in 1897 and having lived there most of his life, Faulkner published The
Sound and the Fury in 1929 and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He used the
stream
of consciousness among other narrative methods to tell his story, which
adds to the value but also the obscurity of the book.
Stream of
consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts to describe the
various thoughts of the heroes in a novel and the feelings which pass through
their minds.
The novel
is separated into 4 parts:
The first
part takes place on April 7th 1928 and depicts the perplexed
thoughts in the mind of Benjy, a 33-year-old congenital imbecile who has no
sense of time. The author helps the reader to understand the change of time by
changing from roman to italics type.
The second
part is narrated by his brother Quentin during his last day alive before he
commits suicide in 1910.
In the
third and fourth parts he comes back to 1928
and the story starts coming out in the light little by little. The
strange thing is that as a reader you still enjoy the seeming rigmarole.
After you
finish reading you feel like you want to go through it again. And this is not
only to uncover hidden parts but also to enjoy.
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