The Sound and the Fury | Literary Precedents
The Sound and the Fury resembles nothing in Faulkner's previous work. When Faulkner wrote the novel, he was not sure that he would ever be published again and so was writing only for himself. His discouragement was the result of overwhelmingly negative responses to his earlier manuscript, Flags in the Dust, which his publisher rejected outright. Because of Faulkner's disillusion with both manuscript and publisher, Faulkner's friend Ben Wasson edited Flags in the Dust for him; eventually, Wasson placed the book—known now as Sartoris— with a publisher. Aside from...
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