num_pages: 278
description: "The Sound and Fury" was the novel that marked the beginning of Faulkner's greatest sequence of fiction and established the dark side of the southlands as his undisputed literary territory. It chronicles the disintegration of a once-genteel southern family in the words of three brothers and their black servant. Quentin is doomed by incestuous passion, while Jason is ridden by pettiness and greed, and the tragic Benjy is an idiot child of thirty-three. Only the decency of the maidservant Dilsey offers counterpoint to their corroded humanity.
language: English
title: Sound and the Fury
titlecomplete: Sound and the Fury (Picador Books)
characters: Candace "Caddy" Compson, Caroline Bascomb Compson, Miss Quentin Compson, Dilsey Gibson, Quentin Compson III, Jason Compson III, Jason Compson IV, Luster, Benjamin "Benjy" Compson
genres: Fiction, American, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 178038
places: The United States of America, Mississippi, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
publisher: Picador Books