One of the most acclaimed books of the 20th century.
A book in which the realism of the traditional Southern-prose “family drama” frames the author’s endlessly innovative stylistic discoveries, the most important of which is the use of the “stream of consciousness” technique in English-language literature, virtually for the first time since Shakespeare’s <i>King Lear</i>.
In essence, at the purely plot level, the drama of crime and incest, passion and redemption on which <i>The Sound and the Fury</i> is built is characteristic of canonical “Southern Gothic.” However, Faulkner’s genius turns it into a unique work that expands the boundaries of what literature can encompass.