Summary
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Nothing is more characteristic of Faulkner than the constant testing of creative power against the aggravating choices of his own making. His largest, most radical and most demanding work, Noise and Fury, was created at a time when the writer was still poorly known and in a difficult situation, so the pleasure of exploring his own speaking skills completely overrode practical considerations. This gave him the freedom to explore consciousness and its relationship to language, a preoccupation that arose naturally from his reaction to physical reality, as well as the profound influences of culture and historical circumstances.
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