By turns lyrical and dramatic, hilarious and heartbreaking, The Sound and the Fury is the tragic story of beautiful Caddy Comapson and the dissolution of her family. --from The Sound and the Fury.
The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
They are not even fought.
Because no battle is ever won he said.
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. . . .
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.
Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character\'s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner\'s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin
Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant.
By turns lyrical and dramatic, hilarious and heartbreaking, The Sound and the Fury is the tragic story of beautiful Caddy Comapson and the dissolution of her family
