The Sound and the Fury

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modernist novel novel

The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	modernist novel → novel →
adaptation	The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) → The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) →
adaptationType	film adaptation →
author	William Faulkner →
awarded	Modern Library 100 Best Novels list inclusion →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
fictionalUniverse	Yoknapatawpha County cycle →
followedBy	As I Lay Dying →
genre	Southern Gothic → modernist fiction → stream-of-consciousness fiction →
hasCharacter	Caroline Compson → Luster → Miss Quentin → Mr. Jason Compson III →
literaryMovement	modernism →
literarySignificance	considered one of the greatest American novels → landmark of stream-of-consciousness technique →
mainCharacter	Benjy Compson → Caddy Compson → Dilsey Gibson → Jason Compson IV → Quentin Compson →
narrativeStructure	nonlinear timeline → shifting perspectives →
narrativeTechnique	multiple narrators → stream of consciousness →
originalLanguage	English →
placeOfPublication	New York City →
precededBy	Sartoris →
publicationDate	1929-10-07 →
publicationYear	1929 →
publisher	Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith →
ranked	among the top American novels of the 20th century →
sectionNarrator	Benjy Compson → Jason Compson IV → Quentin Compson → third-person narrator →
setting	Jefferson, Mississippi → Yoknapatawpha County →
structure	four sections →
theme	decline of the Southern aristocracy → family disintegration → gender and sexuality → loss and nostalgia → race and class in the American South → time and memory →
timePeriod	early 20th century →

Referenced by (29)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Benjy Compson → Caddy Compson → Caroline Compson → Dilsey Gibson → Dilsey Gibson ("The Sound and the Fury (1929 novel)") → Jason Compson III → Jason Compson IV → Jefferson, Mississippi → Luster → Miss Quentin → Quentin Compson →	appearsIn
Southern Gothic ("As I Lay Dying") → Southern Gothic →	associatedWithWork
The Sound and the Fury ("The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)") →	adaptation
Luster ("Dilsey section of The Sound and the Fury") →	appearsInSection
Yoknapatawpha County →	appearsInWork
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) →	basedOn
Caddy Compson →	centralCharacterIn
Dilsey Gibson ("The Sound and the Fury (1929)") →	firstPublicationAppearance
Caddy Compson ("The Sound and the Fury (1929)") →	firstPublicationContext
American literature →	hasNotableWork
Time 100 best English-language novels list →	hasWork
Yoknapatawpha County ("William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga") →	isCentralTo
Miss Quentin ("intensifies family dysfunction in The Sound and the Fury") →	narrativeFunction
William Faulkner →	notableWork
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) ("The Sound and the Fury (novel)") →	originalWorkTitle
As I Lay Dying →	precededBy
Sartoris →	precedesInSeries
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) →	title