The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
read: circa 2004
Time 100 Novels,
Modern Library #6,
Guardian 1000 Novels
Since I absolutely loved
Absalom, Absalom! and
The Sound and the Fury also features Quentin Compson, I expected to love it. It's nearly universally considered Faulkner's masterpiece ... but I didn't get it. Like
As I Lay Dying, this book features chapters written in stream-of-consciousness, including a sizable fraction of the book written from the perspective of a mentally disabled person. Maybe someday I will be able to appreciate that, but I didn't when I read it.
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