William Faulkner

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?

A la vez fuente de inspiración literaria y materia de reflexión ética e histórica, el Sur transmite su abigarramiento y complejidad a la gran saga que constituye la obra de William Faulkner (1897-1962), en la que el condado de Yoknapatawpha (mítica transposición de la región norteña de Mississippi) constituye, más que el ámbito de la fabulación, su propio objeto. En ¡ABSALÓN, ABSALÓN! (1936), Quentin Compson vástago del linaje cuya ruina se describe en «El ruido y la furia» (BA 0776) recrea, con la ayuda de su compañero de habitación de Harvard, los obstinados esfuerzos de Thomas Stupen para regir una gran plantación y fundar una dinastía. La destrucción y el fracaso son la conclusión final de una historia de violencia, orgullo, incesto y crimen.

"Absolam, Absolam! is one of William Faulkner's most popular short stories and in all likelihood, his most personal story. Set in the South, it is more than a tale of tragic relations between a father and his sons. The immediacy of the past and the urgency of the present are fused under an intense pressure, making Absolam, Absolam! an extreme work, a kind of fiery laboratory of its author's triumphs and travails."

This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre.

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times.

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times.

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members -- including Addie herself -- as well as others; the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

Nel gennaio del 1937, recensendo su «El Hogar», il recente Assalonne, Assalonne!, Borges scriveva: «Conosco due tipi di scrittore: l'uomo la cui prima preoccupazione sono i procedimenti verbali, e l'uomo la cui prima preoccupazione sono le passioni e le fatiche dell'uomo. Di solito si denigra il primo tacciandolo di "bizantinismo" o lo si esalta definendolo "artista puro". L'altro, più fortunato, riceve gli epiteti elogiativi di "profondo", "umano", "profondamente umano" o il lusinghiero vituperio di "barbaro"... Tra i grandi romanzieri Joseph Conrad è stato forse l'ultimo cui interessavano in egual misura le tecniche del romanzo e il destino e il carattere dei personaggi. L'ultimo fino alla straordinaria comparsa di Faulkner. A Faulkner piace esporre il romanzo attraverso i personaggi. Il metodo non è del tutto originale ... ma Faulkner vi trasfonde una intensità quasi intollerabile. In questo libro di Faulkner vi è un'infinita decomposizione, un'infinita e nera carnalità. Lo scenario è lo Stato del Mississippi: gli eroi, uomini annientati dall'invidia, dall'alcol, dalla solitudine, dai morsi dell'odio. Assalonne, Assalonne! è paragonabile a L'urlo e il furore. Non conosco maggior elogio di questo». Né noi conosciamo migliore presentazione di questa. Assalonne, Assalonne! è apparso per la prima volta nel 1936.

A boxed, paperback collection of some of Faulkner's most well know & beloved novels.

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Harper's in 1939 and has since been widely anthologized. The story deals with class conflicts, the influence of fathers, and vengeance as viewed through the third-person perspective of a young, impressionable child. It is a prequel to The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion, the three novels make up the Snopes trilogy.

“A Bear Hunt,” “A Rose for Emily,” “Two Soldiers,” “Victory,” “The Brooch,” “Beyond”—these are among the forty-two stories that make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets, William Faulkner’s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of which human beings are capable. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I; they are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson (“A Justice”) as well as ordinary men and women who emerge in these pages so sharply and indelibly that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels. --back cover Contains: Barn burning -- Shingles for the Lord -- The tall men -- A bear hunt -- Two soldiers -- Shall not perish -- A rose for Emily -- Hair -- Centaur in brass -- Dry September -- Death drag -- Elly -- Uncle Willy -- Mule in the yard -- That will be fine -- That evening sun -- Red leaves -- A justice -- A courtship -- Lo! -- Ad Astra -- Victory -- Crevasse -- Turnabout -- All the dead pilots -- Wash -- Honor -- Dr. Martino -- Fox hunt -- Pennsylvania Station -- Artist at home -- The brooch -- My Grandmother Millard -- Golden land -- There was a queen -- Mountain victory -- Beyond -- Black music -- The leg -- Mistral -- Divorce in Naples -- Carcassonne.

20. yüzyılın büyük modernist romancılarından William Faulkner'ın yazım tekniğinde radikal bir yeniliği temsil eden, benzersiz bir yapıt. Ölüm döşeğinde olan Addie, kırk mil uzaklıktaki Jefferson mezarlığına, ailesinin yanına gömülmeyi vasiyet eder. Addie'nin tabutunu bir katır arabasına yükleyen Bundren ailesi, sıcakla ve sellerle boğuşacakları uzun bir yolculuğa çıkar. Döşeğimde Ölürken, on beş farklı anlatıcının ağzından anlatılan elli dokuz bölümden oluşur. Ailenin öfke, üzüntü, endişe ve tutku dolu serüveni karakterlerin zihninden geçen akışın ritmiyle birleşir. Bilinçlilik akışı tekniğini çarpıcı bir yetkinlikle kullanan Faulkner'ın karakterlerinin "gözleriyle sesi kendi içine dönüp ağlayışını dinlemeye koyulmuş gibidir". Düzyazıyı şiirselleştirmekte sıradışı bir yeteneği olan Faulkner'ın bu romanı, sezgilerin, duyarlıkların, iç seslerin, boşlukların destanıdır.

Espléndido relato, que resume la renuncia del protagonista a una herencia, como resultado de su negativa a reconocer la propiedad de una tierra corrompida por la codicia de sus ocupantes. Para él, el viejo oso que es acosado implacablemente, es un anacronismo indomable e invencible. Todas las obsesiones fundamentales de la narrativa faulkneriana concurren en este relato, una auténtica obra maestra.

Novela clave en la obra de William Faulkner (1897-1962), pues en ella se adentró en técnicas que habrían de hacerse claves en la narrativa moderna y consolidó el que habría de ser su mundo narrativo, EL RUIDO Y LA FURIA (1929), título que evoca los célebres versos de «Macbeth», se articula en torno a los monólogos interiores de los hermanos Benjy, el idiota; el sensible Quentin, atormentado por el incestuoso amor que siente hacia su hermana Caddy, y el inescrupuloso Jason. La trágica historia que Faulkner va urdiendo con genial maestría narrativa en torno a los miembros de una antigua familia hacendada del Sur, desvela con una fuerza expresiva inusual la lenta e implacable corrosión del tiempo, así como el desvanecimiento y la perversión del intangible paraíso de la infancia.

The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as SARTORIS.

PRZERAŻAJĄCA, PRZEWROTNA I KOMICZNA POWIEŚĆ DROGI Addie umiera. Przez uchylone okno dociera do niej zapach świeżego drewna. To jej syn starannie hebluje deski na trumnę. A każdą z desek pokazuje matce. Niebawem cała rodzina wyruszy na cmentarz w odległym Jefferson. Leżącą w trumnie Addie, jej męża i pięcioro dzieci czeka podróż przez wszystkie żywioły. A nad wozem ciągniętym przez zabiedzone muły kołuje coraz więcej sępów… W napisanej w ciągu 48 nocy powieści William Faulkner w mistrzowski sposób kreśli portret rodziny, która rozkłada się i gnije od środka. Narracja rozpisana na głosy tworzy gorączkową, porażającą opowieść, po której nie można złapać tchu jeszcze przez długi czas po skończeniu lektury. NIEWZNAWIANA W POLSCE OD 30 LAT, JEDNA Z NAJWAŻNIEJSZYCH POWIEŚCI XX WIEKU W NOWYM PRZEKŁADZIE JACKA DEHNELA

Seven dramatic stories wich reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are the humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of the great America writers of this century. "Has a richness of colour and feeling that belongs to maturity... exceptional wisdom and sympathy" - Observer

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who saved him from drowning in an icy creek.

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Quella della decadenza e sventura dei Compson, una grande famiglia del Sud americano alle soglie della Depressione, è una storia torbida e labirintica, eppure straordinariamente romanzesca. La giovane Caddy, nel racconto dei suoi tre diversissimi fratelli, diventa presenza candida e rassicurante, sorella ingegnosa, madre snaturata che abbandona la figlia. Ma Benjy, Quentin e Jason sono troppo coinvoltii negli avvenimenti per riuscire a fare chiarezza fino in fondo, e solo Dilsey, la cuoca negra, si rivelerà in grado di snodare la matassa familiare.

En Luz de agosto aparecen retratados algunos de los personajes más memorables de Faulkner: la cándida e intrépida Lena Grove en busca del padre de su hijo; el reverendo Gal Hightower -atormentado por constante visiones de soldados de caballería confederados- y Joe Christmas, un misterioso vagabundo consumido por los orígenes raciales de sus antepasados. Faulkner, además de haber sido el innovador de una forma de narrar que ha influido poderosamente en las generaciones que le han continuado, fue el cronista de los más notables hechos, costumbres y personajes de su tierra. Luz de agosto es una de las obras más representativas de un hombre que, trabajando sobre la historia y haciendo campear la imaginación, logró convertirse en uno de los escritores más importantes de este siglo.

O terceiro livro de William Faulkner publicado pela Cosac Naify em nova tradução é um romance de arquitetura complexa. A ruptura com a linearidade desconcerta o leitor. O tempo é estilhaçado e é pela valorização dos estilhaços que Faulkner multiplica os pontos de vista, iluminando figuras sublimes e grotescas. Da atmosfera de violência e horror do Mississippi surgem personagens profundamente humanas: o assassino dilacerado pela herança de sangue; a mulher de família abolicionista hostilizada por uma cidade orgulhosa de seu passado escravocrata; o pastor refém de um passado familiar de violência e glória; o brutal defensor da lei; o casal de velhos atormentados pelo fantasma do neto; o homem solitário que pensou estar livre das desgraças, e dos encantamentos, de amar; a jovem decidida e ingênua. Mas a história não termina aí. Toda a maestria da construção de Luz em agosto se confirma no último capítulo, numa reviravolta narrativa que o consagrou definitivamente. O leitor, guiado por Faulkner, encerra o livro em estado de assombro. Viveu intensamente o horror, tomou contato com os recônditos da alma. Percebeu o passado como um inimigo que não dá trégua. Será assombrado por imagens poderosas. Um livro que não tem fim.

"La struttura e lo stile di Mentre morivo esercitano un fascino, a volte esasperante, soltanto se il lettore accetta la sfida di mettere in atto tutta la sua disponibilità percettiva. Bisogna cogliere insieme l'assurdo, il comico, il simbolico, l'inconcluso, la ridicolaggine che incombe sulla tragedia, l'enigma, che non si risolve".

Quinta novela de William Faulkner, Mientras agonizo es una de sus obras maestras y uno de los libros por los que sentía más aprecio. La escribió en seis frenéticas semanas, de madrugada, mientras trabajaba como bombero y vigilante nocturno de la central eléctrica de la Universidad de Mississippi. Relata la peripecia de una familia de blancos pobres, los Bundren, que recorren los parajes rurales del Sur con el cadáver de la esposa y madre en un ataúd para enterrarla en una parcela de su propiedad.

“Full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.”—Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune A fascinating glimpse of the author as a young artist, Faulkner’s sophomore novel, Mosquitoes (1927), introduces us to a colorful band of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans. This engaging, high-spirited tale—which Faulkner wrote “for the sake of writing because it was fun”—provides a delightful accompaniment to his canonical works.

Il motivo della morte come mestiere banale si sviluppa attraverso un crescendo di scene narrative che hanno l'evidenza di sequenze cinematografiche. Per i protagonisti di questa storia americana, il rischio della morte è accettato come cosa ovvia, senza grandezza e senza viltà. Un pilota, un paracadutista, una donna, un ragazzo e un giornalista alcolizzato intrecciano i loro destini intorno a un campo di aviazione, dove si svolgono gare aeree al cospetto di una folla avida di emozioni violente, che, nell'attesa inconfessata di veder verificarsi l'evento supremo dello spettacolo, quello della morte, partecipa ad a una sorta di crudele rito purificatore. Tutti i mostri quotidiani, il male della civiltà meccanica nella sua espressione più esasperata sono simboleggiati da questa folla frenetica e vociferante: William Faulkner, premio Nobel per la letteratura 1949, ha tentato di esorcizzare l'incubo imprigionandolo in una specie di specchio magico visto con gli occhi di un uomo prigioniero dell'alcool, del dolore e di una grottesca allegria.

O som e a fúria é a tragédia da família Compson, apresentando algumas das personagens mais memoráveis da literatura: a bela e rebelde Caddy, Benjy, o filho varão, o assombrado e neurótico Quentin; Jason, o cínico brutal, e Dilsey, o criado negro. Com as suas vidas fragmentadas e atormentadas pela história e pela herança, as suas vozes e acções enredam-se para criar o que é, sem dúvida, a obra-prima de Faulkner e um dos maiores romances do século XX. William Faulkner afirmou muitas vezes que O som e a fúria era o romance mais próximo do seu coração porque era o que lhe tinha causado mais sofrimento e angústia a escrever. Neste magnífico romance, publicado pela primeira vez em 1929, Faulkner criou a «menina dos seus olhos», a bela e trágica Caddy Compson, cuja história nos conta através dos monólogos separados dos seus três irmãos: Benjy, o idiota; Quentin, o suicida neurótico; e o monstruoso Jason. O Som e a Fúria é o seu quarto romance e a primeira das suas obras primas indiscutíveis, aquela que, mais do que qualquer outra, confirmou Faulkner como figura central da literatura do século.

Lançado em 1939, este romance hoje consagrado como um clássico da moderna literatura norte-americana é uma das criações mais originais de William Faulkner (1897-1962), Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1949. O livro entrelaça duas histórias independentes, em capítulos alternados, mas que se iluminam mutuamente. A primeira, que dá título ao volume, conta a paixão tumultuada e impossível de Charlotte e Henry; a segunda, "O velho", narra a luta de um condenado que sai da prisão para salvar as vítimas de uma das maiores enchentes do rio Mississipi. A narrativa é assim definida pelo escritor Milton Hatoum: "Aqui somos enredados pelos jogos de tempos, pela fala às vezes delirante do narrador e das personagens, por situações e diálogos absurdos, por uma poesia áspera". A Cosac Naify publicou, do mesmo autor, O som e a fúria.

Nancy, a negro nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby: her lawyer, Gavin Stevens, compels the mistress to confess the reason for Nancy's crime. The law takes its course; but justice, in Faulkner's sense, has been done.

Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuary is a powerful novel examining the nature of true evil, through the prisms of mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction. This is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.

Portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulkner's original work. The full text was published in 1973 as Flags in the Dust.

Here, published in a single volume as he always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise William Faulkner’s famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of this celebrated author’s incomparable imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called “one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon.” It recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman’s Bend—and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the central novel, records Flem’s ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. “For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man,” noted Ralph Ellison. “Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics.”

“A deft hand has woven this narrative. . . . This book rings true.”—New York Times Faulkner’s debut novel, Soldiers’ Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran’s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers’ return from war on the people—particularly the women—who were left behind.

"'The Bear' is a composite narrative of the initiation and inheritance of Isaac McCaslin (born in 1867), the last direct male descendant of Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, who purchased land from the Chickasaw Indians." --A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. A version of it was published as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post on May 9, 1942. It was subsequently incorporated into the author's novel Go Down, Moses (1942); but has since sometimes been published as a free-standing novella.

The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation. Flem Snopes -- wily, energetic, a man of shady origins -- quickly comes to dominate the town and its people with his cunning and guile.

The Mansion completes Faulkner’s great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation.

In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner's vision than The Portable Faulkner. Edited by Malcolm Cowley Contents: The Old People The Unvanquished The Last Wilderness The Peasants The End of an Order Mississippi Flood Modern Times The Undying Past

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions.

In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed wiht fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

Three different ways to approach Faulkner, each of them representative of his work as a whole. Includes "Spotted Horses," "Old Man," and his famous "The Bear."

New Orleans, un'estate degli anni Venti. Un gruppo di artisti, intellettuali e giovani vari è imbarcato sul panfilo di una ricca mecenate. Durante quattro giorni di crociera sul lago, scanditi dagli attacchi di zanzare, ciascuno persegue le sue fissazioni: alcol, sesso, teorie sull'arte, critica letteraria. Con questo suo secondo romanzo, del 1927, Faulkner scrive la sua opera comico-erotica guardando soprattutto all'Ulisse di Joyce uscito pochi anni prima, a cui fa più volte riferimento. Ma il mondo rappresentato è quello di Fitzgerald, del proibizionismo, delle flappers, le ragazzine con i capelli alla maschietta che seducono molto più di quanto svogliatamente concedono. Un libro divertente, con personaggi quasi caricaturali e gag da slapstick, ma spietato. Alla fine ci si domanda se le fastidiose zanzare del titolo siano per Faulkner gli insetti o gli umani.

„Prin originalitatea stilului, varietatea si constructia personajelor, incarcatura filozofica, umor si intensitate tragica, scrierile lui Faulkner sint fara egal.“ (Robert Penn Warren) „Primul lucru care te izbeste in romanul «Zgomotul si furia» este ciudatenia tehnica. De ce a fracturat Faulkner timpul povestirii si a amestecat fragmentele? De ce prima fereastra care se deschide spre aceasta lume fictiva este reprezentata de constiinta unui idiot? Cititorul e ispitit sa caute repere si sa restabileasca, pentru propriul uz, cronologia intimplarilor.“ (Jean-Paul Sartre) „«Zgomotul si furia» privilegiaza logica interioara a romanului. Ea infirma orice alte posibile perceptii minimalizatoare: o miscare de coborire in mintea intunecata a lui Benjy, urmata de doua episoade ascensionale (capitolele narate de Quentin si Jason), si o incheiere pe platoul amplu, reprezentat de «descifrarile» propuse de vocea auctoriala. Ar fi vorba, asadar, de un model progresiv, care functioneaza atit pe orizontala, cit si pe verticala textului. Geometria speciala a romanului absoarbe impreciziile de comunicare si netezeste asperitatile inevitabile ale vocilor in egala masura concurentiale si complementare. Stralucit exemplu de incercare de a depasi inevitabilul ermetism al textului, «Zgomotul si furia» redevine misterios pe masura ce incercam sa descifram intentiile autorului.“ (Mircea Mihaies)

خلق "فوكنر" في أعماله الروائية أسطورة بعيدة الأصول، منتشرة الفروع، تضيف إلى كل رواية يكتبها تفصيلاً جديداً واتساعاً جديداً، وكان رائده في إيجاد هذه الأسطورة الخلافة أن يصور ما يدعوه الامريكيون (الجنوب): وهو يتألف من الولايات التي انتعشت على زراعة القطن واستخدمت الزنوج رقيقاً إلى أن اندلعت نيران الحرب الأهلية بين الشمال والجنوب، فخسر الجنوب الحرب، والغي الرق، وغزا الشمال الجنوب بوسائل شتى وتغيرت معالم الحياة فيه. لقد أراد فوكنر من خلال روايته "الصخب والعنف" مجابهة مشكلة الشر ويتفحصها من كل جانب، لكي يرى فعلها في حياة الإنسان. و"الصخب والعنف" هي أول رواية نشرها فوكنر عن قصة الجنوب هذه وقد كانت كتابه الخامس الذي التفت إليه النقاد ورأوا فيه رواية رائعة البناء، والأسلوب سماها البعض "رواية الروائيين". غير أن القارئ يحتاج في تذوقها وتخطي صعوبتها إلى حساسية فنية مرهفة. وأناة شديدة. فكان الكتاب نصراً أدبياً لصاحبه، الرواية قصة أخوة ثلاثة هم "كونتن"، و"جاسن" و"بنجامين أو بنجي" وأختهم "كانوس أو كادي" وأبنتها "كونتن" (وسميت باسم خالها بعد انتحاره). وقد كتبت على شكل سمفونية في أربعة أقسام، كل قسم من الأقسام الثلاثة يرويه أحد الأخوة بالدور، كل على طريقته، والقسم الأخير يرويه المؤلف. إن أسرة كمبسن هذه تحاول التمسك بالتقاليد الارستقراطية عبثاً، وهنا يبرز الرمز الذي سيطر على أسطورة فوكنر الجنوب وتسرب نوازع الشمال المادية والآلية إليه مما أدى إلى سقوطه في هذا المستنقع الذي جرده من مثاليته وأخلاقيته التي احتفى بهما فوكنر دائماً ودعا دائماً إليهما. ونجاح فوكنر في إبراز تلك المسائل يبرز من خلال نجاحه في تصوير ما أصاب من غايته، وغايته هي أن يصور انحلال أسرة كمبسن، ضمن إطار الانحلال العام في "الجنوب". وكان عليه أن يحمل من ذلك شيئاً فنياً مؤثراً، وهذا بالضبط ما نجح في إنجازه. الناشر: "الصخب والعنف" هي في رأي النقاد "رواية الروائيين"، تركيبها الفني، على صعوبته، معجزة من معجزات الخيال. وغاية فوكنر في هذه الرواية هي أن يصور انحلال أسرة آل كمبسن، ضمن الانحلال العام في "الجنوب" الذي يتألف من الولايات المتحدة التي انتعشت على زراعة القطن واستخدمت الزنوج رقيقاً إلى أن اندلعت نيران الحرب، وألغي الرق، وغزا الشمال الجنوب بوسائل شتى وتغيرت معالم الحياة فيه. وهذا التغير، بما فيه من انحطاط أو سموّ، من شهامة أو حقارة، وبما سبقه أو تلاه من جرائم وصراع وهتك أعراض، هو موضوع فوكنر.