by William Faulkner · Norton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393964813
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«The Sound and the Fury» is the novel by William Faulkner, published by Norton in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The novel narrates the decline of the Compsons, an aristocratic Mississippi family, through several voices, including that of Benjy, a brother with intellectual disability, in a fragmented account of memory, time and loss. This critical edition adds annotations by David Minter, historical contexts and seventeen essays.
Second edition of the Norton Critical Edition, edited by David Minter, with the text of the edition corrected by Noel Polk and a selected bibliography.
Edition designed for literature students and readers who want to delve deeper into Faulkner's work with critical and contextual material.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
