The Sound and the Fury-喧哗与骚动

作者：William Faulkner

书名：The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》

中文简介：The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》是美国作家威廉·福克纳的第四部小说和成名作，出版于1929年，书名出自莎士比亚戏剧《麦克白》中第五幕第五场麦克白的著名独白。该书采用意识流的方法，讲述了美国南方破落户康普生一家的生活，是美国文学史上的经典之作。该书原题《黄昏》。该书以麦克白的败亡、绝望与虚无，来映照就南方解体后大家族子弟的心境。这部小说是福克纳最喜爱的作品，他将它看做自己“最美好的失败”、“最勇敢的失败”、“最辉煌的失败”，正是这部结构复杂、大胆实验的作品为他赢得了世界声誉。

英文简介：The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.

"Backgrounds" begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Sound and the Fury and includes a selection of Faulkner’s letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by Faulkner's friend Ben Wasson, and both versions of Faulkner's 1933 introduction to his novel.

"Cultural and Historical Contexts" presents four different perspectives, two of them new to the second edition, on the place of the American South in history. Taken together, these works—by C. Vann Woodward, Richard H. King, Carolyn Porter, and Robert Penn Warren—provide the reader with valuable contexts for understanding the novel.

"Criticism" includes seventeen essays on The Sound and the Fury that collectively trace changes in the way we have viewed this novel over the last four decades. The critics are Jean-Paul Sartre, Irving Howe, Ralph Ellison, Olga W. Vickery, Cleanth Brooks, Michael Millgate, John T. Irwin, Myra Jehlen, Donald M. Kartiganer, David Minter, Warwick Wadlington, John T. Matthews, Thadious M. Davis, Wesley Morris and Barbara Alverson Morris, Minrose C. Gwin, André Bleikasten, and Philip M. Weinstein. A revised Selected Bibliography also is included.