The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Edition) | O Som e a Fúria

William Faulkner - Prémio Nobel da Literatura '49 e e 2 Pulitzer de Ficção

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the authoritative edition prepared by Noel Polk, which follows Faulkner's original intent as closely as scrupulous scholarship can follow it, and it is presented here with careful annotation that helps with uncommon words or allusions but that does not venture upon interpretation.

Backgrounds and Contexts includes not only selections from Faulkner's letters and interviews, the Appendix to The Sound and the Fury that he wrote in 1945, and both versions of the "Introduction" he wrote in 1933, but also an historical essay by C. Vann Woodward and a brief excerpt from a memoir by Faulkner's friend Ben Wasson.

Critical Perspectives offers provocative excerpts from the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Ellison, Irving Howe, R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, John T. Irwin, and Myra Jehlen. Critical Interpretations includes eight extended discussions of the novel by Olga Vickery. Richard Chase, Cleanth Brooks, Michael Millgate, Joseph W. Reed, Jr., Donald M. Kartiganer, David Minter, and John T. Matthews. A Selected Bibliography directs the reader to further study.

THE EDITOR

DAVID MINTER, professor of English at Emory University, is coeditor of The Harper American Literature and The Columbia Literary History of the United States, as well as the author of The Interpreted Design as a Structural Principal in American Prose and William Faulkner: His Life and Work.