书名：The Sound And The Fury喧哗与骚动
作者：William Faulkner
出版社名称：Vintage Classics
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099475019
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：288
The Sound And The Fury《喧哗与骚动》是诺贝尔文学奖得主威廉·福克纳的代表作，也是福克纳自认“伟大的作品”。它以四个人物的不同视角，将一个故事讲了四遍，如同一部交响乐的四个乐章，构筑了一个立体主义的美国南方社会，其创作手法之大胆丰富，足以为一部“创作艺术教科书”，是现当代文坛罕见的大手笔。

媒体评论：
“福克纳以其杰出的艺术描写我们所有人的窒息，描写一个因年老而垂死的世界。”
——让-保罗·萨特

“再没有一个作家像威廉福克纳这样将心和灵魂倾注于创作的世界。”——尤多拉·韦尔蒂

A towering, intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
With an introduction by Richard Hughes
Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, The Sound and the Fury explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. At its heart this is a novel about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?'

Review
"One of the most important works of American literature this century" (Observer)

"Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes like an angel"
(Arnold Bennett)

"For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterisation, humour and tragic intensity [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country"
(Robert Penn Warren)

"Its unlike anything else in literature... The experience of reading it seemed closer to the experience of life than anything provided by a neatly contrived story line... After the war I read all I could of William Faulkner, and he continued to present some unique and, it seemed to me, valid way of looking at life"(Nicholas Mosley Guardian)

"Not only was the book a kind of beginning for me, but that it endured still, it moved me deeply and remains "the damndest book I ever read"" (Niall Williams Sunday Times)
The Sound And The Fury《喧哗与骚动》书名取自莎士比亚《麦克白》一句台词：“生活就像傻子讲的故事，满是聒噪和狂怒（喧哗与骚动），却没有任何意义。”小说主题也在被这句台词说中。

小说分为四部分，分别由四个人讲述同一个故事。有智障弟弟班杰明完全时空错乱的心理活动；有昆汀在自杀前的种种臆想；有杰森有私利无亲情的所作所为；有黑人女仆眼中的烦扰家事。这些人以及他们所讲述的故事中的另外的人，如凯蒂、父亲母亲、毛莱舅舅，他们所有人似乎都在同时发出声音，急于诉说自己的欲望、困惑、愠怒和绝望。这些声音就如同现代派交响乐中的那种乐句，如低吟和嘶吼，倾诉着人在凝滞的时间中的窒息和苦熬，此起彼伏地充满整部小说的每一页，但没有一句是和谐和有意义的……

威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner，1897—1962），美国文学史上具有影响力的作家之一，意识流文学在美国的代表人物，1949年诺贝尔文学奖得主，瑞典学院对他的评价是：“他对当代美国小说做出了强有力的和艺术上无与伦比的贡献。”

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulknerwas the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather’s bank. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962.
April seventh 1928
June second 1910
April sixth 1928
April eighth 1928
THROUGH THE FENCE, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. They took the flag out, and they were hitting. Then they put the flag back and they went to the table, and he hit and the other hit. Then they went on, and I went along the fence. Luster came away from the flower tree and we went along the fence and they stopped and we stopped and I looked through the fence while Luster was hunting in the grass.
‘Here, caddie.’ He hit. They vent away across the pasture. I held to the fence and watched them going away.
‘Listen at you, now.’ Luster said. ‘Ain’t you something, thirty-three years old, going on that way. After I done went all the way to town to buy you that cake. Hush up that moaning. Ain’t you going to help me find that quarter so I can go to the show tonight.’
They were hitting little, across the pasture. I went back along the fence to where the flag was. It flapped on the bright grass and the trees.
‘Come on.’ Luster said. ‘We done looked there. They ain’t no more coming right now. Let’s go down to the branch and find that quarter before them niggers finds it.’
It was red, flapping on the pasture. Then there was a bird slanting and tilting on it. Luster threw. The flag flapped on the bright grass and the trees. I held to the fence.
‘Shut up that moaning.’ Luster said. ‘I can’t make them come if they ain’t coming, can I. If you don’t hush up, mammy ain’t going to have no birthday for you. If you don’t hush, you know what I going to do. I going to ear that cake all up. Eat them candles, too. Eat all them thirty-three candles. Come on., let’s go down to the branch. I got to find my quarter. Maybe we can find one of they balls. Here. Here they is. Way over yonder. See.’ He came to the fence and pointed his arm. ‘See them. They ain’t coming back here no more. Come on.’
We went along the fence and came to the garden fence, where our shadows were. My shadow was higher than Luster’s on the fence. We came to the broken place and went through it.