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| | The Sound and the Fury | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels |
 | | Flannery O'Connor's nickname for Faulkner was "the Dixie Limited." She didn't mean it entirely kindly: His huge talent and towering ambition made him a literary freight train that other southern writers were often forced to dodge. |
 | | Both qualities are on full display in The Sound and the Fury, which describes the bitter, incestuous dealings of a Mississippi family fallen on hard times. |
 | | A formal and stylistic tour de force (in other words, a tough but profoundly rewarding read), the book unfolds in four sections, centered in turn on each of the three Compson brothersBenjy, a mentally disabled man; Quentin, a depressed, neurotic Harvard student; and Jason, an avaricious jerkas well as on a fl servant named Dilsey. |
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