Modern Era · North America · Culture
1929
Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
1929
A Mississippi writer nobody had heard of put out a novel told partly through the consciousness of a mentally disabled man, partly in flashbacks and syntactic labyrinths. Readers were bewildered. Twenty years later Faulkner won the Nobel Prize and the book was recognized as one of the central American modernist novels.
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