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genejeannie 's review for:
The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
by C. Vann Woodward, Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard H. King, Ben Wasson, David Minter, Ralph Ellison, Irving Howe, William Faulkner
An utterly tragic story that evoked in me equal parts terrible sadness and righteous indignation. I gave this book four stars because I will likely have to read it again before I can appreciate it fully. It is worth every star one could give, but I was not moved completely due to my inability to decipher a considerable amount of its complexity.
Addendum: the Compson Appendix is crucial to understanding the novel. For me, a great deal of the symbolism and the story's events crystallized with the reading of this addition, written by Faulkner in 1945 for The Portable Faulker. The weight of this story has hung over me for days now, and I remain struck by my intense emotional responses to the characters, and to the almost-triumphant, ultimately doomed fates of Caddy and Quentin. An excellent story is one which haunts the reader, I think.
Addendum: the Compson Appendix is crucial to understanding the novel. For me, a great deal of the symbolism and the story's events crystallized with the reading of this addition, written by Faulkner in 1945 for The Portable Faulker. The weight of this story has hung over me for days now, and I remain struck by my intense emotional responses to the characters, and to the almost-triumphant, ultimately doomed fates of Caddy and Quentin. An excellent story is one which haunts the reader, I think.