The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner’s masterpiece traces the decline of the Compsons, an old Mississippi family, through four sections with radically different narrators, beginning with the fragmented perceptions of Benjy, a man with a cognitive disability. Difficult and rewarding, the novel circles the same events across time, revealing obsession, loss, and decay. It is one of the most ambitious and celebrated works of twentieth-century American literature.