You can listen online to free English audiobook “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner on our website. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Theme and technique – the distortion of time through the use of the inner monologue are fused particularly successfully in The Sound and the Fury, the downfall of the Compson family seen through the minds of several characters. Their theme is the decay of the old South, as represented by the Sartoris and Compson families, and the emergence of ruthless and brash newcomers, the Snopeses. The human drama in Faulkner’s novels is then built on the model of the actual, historical drama extending over almost a century and a half Each story and each novel contributes to the construction of a whole, which is the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County and its inhabitants.

He further complicates matters for the reader by scrambling, as it were, the time frames referred to by the narrating.

In an attempt to create a saga of his own, Faulkner has invented a host of characters typical of the historical growth and subsequent decadence of the South. In The Sound and the Fury Faulkner makes use of the stream of consciousness technique, which was also used earlier in the 1920s in such experimental works as James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner records the Compson family narrative using time- based sections that correspond with a different voice. It may also be the most searing discussion of race in a. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was not widely known until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner may just be the greatest Southern novel ever written. William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.

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