The Sound and the Fury

In 1949, the American writer William Faulkner (1897–1962) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. By that time, his beloved child—the novel "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), published twenty years earlier—had acquired a reputation as a modern classic; but even today it astonishes readers with the depth of the author’s intent and the sophistication of the artistic form.
This parable about the search for meaning in a meaningless world immerses the reader in the chaos of the human soul, almost tangibly transmitted from the pages of the novel. Through the prism of time, vague memories, and lost illusions, the tragedy of the Compson family—heirs of the vanishing aristocracy of the American South—unfolds. Each of the four parts of the work represents a unique perspective on the world of one of the characters, intertwining past and present, gathering into a complex mosaic of human experiences and endlessly directing the reader to reflections on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, to which the novel owes its title: "Life… is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Published in a brilliant translation by Osia Soroka.