The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is rightly considered one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, which became a landmark not only for American modernism, but also for all of American literature in general. The writer himself appreciated it perhaps the most of all his works. One of the most striking literary texts of the "Southern School", The Sound and the Fury creates the myth of the good old American South, which it became after the defeat in the Civil War, and tells the story of an ancient and once wealthy southern family, whose decay and decay the reader is invited to observe. Through the consciousness of the representatives of this family, William Faulkner, with all his inherent skill, shows us a world-that-no longer exists. Here, myths and history of the past are intricately intertwined, children who pay for the sins of their parents, and parents who cannot let go of anything and anyone. And only a great artist and thinker like William Faulkner could tame such powerful themes.