Sin and Salvation

The Sound and The Fury is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, in the first third of the 20th century, the novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so relayed in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.

A deep American South novel about a black & white intertwined in a relationship living in one house with various goings-on Southern style.

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.

Absalom, Absalom! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him". His tragedy left its impress not only on his contemporaries but also on men who came after, men like Quentin Compson, haunted even into the 20th century by Sutpen's legacy.

Aus der biblischen Geschichte von Absalom wird die Geschichte der Familie Sutpen in der Zeit des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Faulkner verfolgt sie über mehr als ein Jahrhundert. Thomas Sutpen, aus einer bettelarmen weißen Familie stammend, heiratet auf Haiti die reiche Eulalia Bon und taucht 1833 plötzlich mit einem Haufen schwarzer Sklaven in Jefferson, Mississipi auf, wo er Ländereien kauft, ein Herrenhaus errichtet, ein zweites Mal heiratet und gesellschaftliches Ansehen erwirbt. Er hat aus dieser Ehe zwei Kinder, Judith und Henry, aber er hat auch einen Sohn aus der ersten Ehe, Charles Bon, ein Studienfreund Henrys, der sich ahnungslos in Judith verliebt.