The 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American novelist and short story writer William Faulkner "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." Th
"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."
The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1929. Faulkner's fourth novel, it is the second to be set in Yoknapatawpha County and the first featuring the Co
1949 Nobel Prize in Literature
…the most significant American writers of all time. Faulkner wrote 13 novels and many short stories but started as a poet. With his breakthrough novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929), he began to use stream of consciousness to portray a character's flow of inner thoughts. His books often are told from the point of view of…
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