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Bookmark or Share- The Sound and the Fury | Summary, Characters, & FactsThe fourth section has a third-person omniscient narrator. All but the second section are set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, in April 1928. The four sections, despite their formal differences, overlap in important ways.
- DIGITAL YoknapatawphaFor a broader discussion of our maps of Yoknapatawpha, and their relationship to the two maps of the county that Faulkner himself created, see both the "Faulkner & Maps" exhibit in DY's Commentaries section and the "Mapping the Story" explanations that you'll find in many of our Notes on the Texts.
- William Faulkner - Books, Novels & Quotes - BiographyFor his famous 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, he developed the fictional Yoknapatawpha County — a place nearly identical to Lafayette County, in which Oxford, Mississippi, is located.
- Yoknapatawpha cycle | works by Faulkner | BritannicaThe mythical county of Yoknapatawpha and the generations of its people were created by William Faulkner in a celebrated series of novels. Ranked among the highest attainments in both American and world literature, Faulkner’s writing earned him the Nobel Prize in 1949.
- William Faulkner | Biography, Education, Books, & FactsWilliam Faulkner, American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature and is best known for his works set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. His notable novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Light in August.
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