Once Sanctuary made it big, folks started realizing that Faulkner’s other work was actually technically (and emotionally) brilliant. It’s a potboiler of a novel, one with lots of alcohol and sex and violence. Of course, the funny part of this story is that Faulkner didn’t gain a wide readership until 1931, when he published Sanctuary. That’s a fancy way of saying that The Sound and the Fury made Faulkner famous – fast. It was Faulkner’s first critically-acclaimed novel, and it immediately launched the young author from Mississippi into the literary limelight. We don’t mean to toot Faulkner’s horn here, but lots of folks have been saying things a lot like these ever since The Sound and the Fury burst onto the scene in 1929. Heck, it may just be the Great American Novel. It may also be the greatest family drama ever composed. It may also be the most searing discussion of race in a modernist novel. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner may just be the greatest Southern novel ever written.
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