Before you Read... The Sound and the Fury! by William Faulkner - Book Summary, Analysis, Review

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The Sound and The Fury In-Depth Playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5zTinych6ykgdk Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thecodexcantina Bookmarks: 1:55 Publication Info 4:30 Biographical Elements 5:37 Yoknapatawpha Reading Order 7:21 Why the Text is Important? 10:08 Faulkner Warnings 11:58 Narrative Consciousness 18:18 Major Themes 21:37 Road Ahead

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks for watching!

[@rbrinks5]

I just finished chapter 1 and felt lost. I’m glad I found this video!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

I hope it all clicks! It's a wonderful story

[@Krishicher]

I read the novel for American literature class in high school. I am glad to hear that you described Dilsy as the conscience because that is what I wrote as my thesis. Watching this video today made me realize how much more I could have learned from reading Faulkner.

[@hesterdunlop7948]

Shout out to you both ! From a total Faulkner newbie to a Faulkner Fan girl in one month , all down to this great deep dive into TSATF . Thank you !

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Excellent! So glad you enjoyed it

[@rocknroll909]

Thank you so much for these videos. Just finished Chapter 1 and my head is spinning. Glad I'm not the only one.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

You're very welcome! I hope it stops spinning!

[@Manfred-nj8vz]

These Faulkner videos are truly amazing. They've helped me greatly as I was reading 'Absalom, Absalom!' and now I feel lucky to watch one video at the time of the series 'The Sound and the Fury' as I read the novel for the first time, since a new translation into Greek has been just published. This is the fourth Greek translation of the novel since 1974. Faulkner had always his reading public in Greece.

[@scallydandlingaboutthebooks]

I can see this being really helpful to a first time reader. Good to see it up although Faulkner in August carried me through successfully.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Scallydandling about the books teamwork!

[@manjapetrov7358]

You guys are so good at analyzing books. I love watching others’ reviews once/before l read it. And most of the reviews are so boring and not really diving into it and yours is definitely my favorite. There were occasions when l read the book after l listened to your video 😀

[@TheCodeXCantina]

You are too kind. There are many ways that people can approach books so I’m glad our approach resonates with you

[@maevewhite4376]

This is a great insight for me to the works of Faulkner, where the context is obviously important. I’m from Dublin, the home of James Joyce.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

I'm sure you could help us with Joyce! I've had to look up lots of stuff when reading him!

[@reality_sculptor]

I'm not a native English speaker I bought The sound and the fury and didn't get the first chapters. Then I bought it it Spanish I didn't get it either 😅. I'm going to try this and my last resort will be the movie.

[@BookishTexan]

Love the Narcissus connection. Missed that. Great Video as always.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Bookish Was taking notes on Greek references but ultimately decided not to do a video focused on it. Maybe next time

[@veritas6335]

So - what reason would there be to read this book? Besides being impossible to follow, more of a pain than a pleasure to read, and just generally drudgery to read - why should people bother? Is there anything good about it?

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Sometimes we’re in situations where we have no idea how we got there. It’s a lot of how history happens too. People frequently think we just document things easily and understand the past in modern days. Many times we know the what but lack the why. In the same way that many people have loved Tolstoy’s War and Peace and it’s inquiry into how we define our choices and past, some prefer Faulkner’s approach where you can enter into their minds and play detective to figure out the clues of the “whys”. No worries if it’s not for you. Plenty of other books out there.

[@AndrewLeigh-v1l]

Well done chaps,,, ive seen your Dostoevsky reviews and this is great 😂 yes the title of the book comes from Shakespeare s Scottish play(commonly known as Macbeth also known as the comedy of Glamis,,,,,, 😂 thanks again

[@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace]

Wooo pear symbolism! Hah. That is extensive. Thanks for explaining the old south and new south, Krypto. I'm learning so much about southern fiction from you guys!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

I give you full credit for inspiring me to go look up what a pear means!

[@bighardbooks770]

_Ahhhhhh,_ most excellent! You guys do such a terrific & thorough job 😍⚡😄

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Big Hard Books & Classics I wish I hadn’t been so busy during the event to get these out sooner!

[@bighardbooks770]

@@TheCodeXCantina Naw, you know me: I want #FaulknerInAugust2020 to last alllllll Summer long lmao! Keep me posted about that Faulkner Conference and If really like to do that Summer of Faulkner w/The Snopes Trilogy someday; pencil it in for 2022!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Big Hard Books & Classics summer of snopes is penciled in for 2022

[@Anna_L_Karlova]

Thank you so much!!👏!

[@TheNerdyNarrative]

This is one I'll just enjoy through the two of you, I don't think I'd enjoy it very much.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

The Nerdy Narrative of all his novels, I’m not sure I’d recommend as this being the place to start

[@Idazle]

I love these videos, I really do ❤

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Our pleasure, naturally

[@acruelreadersthesis5868]

This makes me very excited to read this book!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

First time?

[@acruelreadersthesis5868]

Yup

[@elqord.1118]

Lovely. Also found it funny how the camera cuts over to the other guy just staring at the camera and then cuts back

[@TheCodeXCantina]

He’s not staring at the camera. He’s staring into your soul

[@TrailrunnerTroy]

Thank you for these Faulkner videos - brilliant! Very much appreciated.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

My pleasure!

[@katietatey]

What is this Faulkner certificate you showed!??! :) Love this video and I'm excited for the next ones. I'm definitely up for any discussion that includes Biblical references as I don't always get those since I wasn't raised in a churchgoing family.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

katietatey I think we’ll return eventually to it. I’ll maybe want to focus on religion and Greek references that time

[@TheCodeXCantina]

katietatey we are putting together a fun Faulkner syllabus and test for people. See Faulkner syllabus video

[@Starscreamlive]

The Digital Yoknapatawpha website is a gold mine. Without spoiling anything, which section is your favorite? I go back and forth depending on my mood, but it's never been Jason's section.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Starscreamlive this round was either Benjy or Forth. Maybe Benjy because I finally connected with it, but I couldn’t put down book for last section this round

[@QuestLegacy]

The naming and family tree you describe just seems sooo dense with meaning, but it appears to add so much confusion as well lol

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Michael Knipp It’s very unfair to expect a reader to read your novel more than once but here we are in then amber of the moment...

[@АнгелинаХоменок-я7б]

It is so helpful. Thank you so much!!!!!

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Glad it was helpful!

[@yazanasad7811]

Sharing stream of consciousness as a way to hide objectivity. Fourth sectiin more objective, see the situation as less narcissistic

[@bonifaciocunanan6917]

This is absolutely correct. It took me more than a week to at least make something sensible out of the first three pages of the Benjy episode. Imagine yourself exploring the inner self of a 33-year olf man with the mental capacity of a 3-year-old boy.

[@Ramseyreadsandreviews]

Great video guys very informative

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Rajathon Thanks!

[@LucasMyFriends]

I may make time for this. I have lotr to get to and plan on reading mostly nonfiction and poetry these next two months to cleanse myself of all the fiction I’ve rammed into my brain lately. Just gotta finish war and peace. I was soooooooooooo close to absolutely smashing everyone with that but I missed out.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Bits of Lit lol

[@LearntheLiteraturewithmahmud]

Thank you i understand the 90% of the book by your video. And i am sad why i didn't get it on time while i was reading. At the same time i am a nonspeaker of English and i did understand the words by the dictionary but the symbolism the book held was not the thing i got. I am a sort of sad. I want to understand all of Faulkner novels

[@user-cv1zm1cg6k]

I like this channel. Faulkner’s this book is difficult to understand but wanted to read it. Would be appreciated for translate to Korean besides a few other languages aleady translated.

[@lorn6294]

Good stuff.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Thanks

[@Noone-px7xg]

Authors convey meaning Audience can't understand CodeX Cantina conveys And audience understands

[@guzmanhc]

I haven't watched this yet, just wanted to ask if this video is spoiler free

[@TheCodeXCantina]

We talk about biographical info on the text, Faulkner's reading order as a whole, a bit about the characters and how they make sense together, and themes. If you're more sensitive to 'spoilers', you might want to wait until the end of the book to watch this video. We do have a part-by-part discussion for each section. I'd say a lot of our Faulkner "Before you Read" videos flirt more into spoiler territory as Faulkner is an author you have to re-read a lot. We've also changed our levels of what we want in these types of videos so if you're coming from one of our more recent "Before you Read" series videos, those are more firmly in 'spoiler-free' for the broader audience compared to these older Faulkner videos.

[@zharapatterson]

I need to reread The Sound and the Fury, but I really want to read again Absalom, Absalom. Right now I'm trying to reread Philip Roth's American Pastoral part one of( The American Trilogy) are you going to go into writers like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Toni Morrison, Flannery O' Connor? One more thing about William Faulkner are you going discuss William Faulkner's The snopes Trilogy?

[@katietatey]

I think they said they are doing Snopes summer of 2021! Very excited for that as I love to hate the Snopeses. :)

[@TheCodeXCantina]

We’ve done a few Flannery and plan to do a summer of snopes. We’ve got Morrison scheduled but I haven’t scheduled in those other two yet. Should I have?

[@zharapatterson]

I Hope so if you have the time. Meanwhile look up Philip Roth,and Saul Bellow on KZbin and Goodreads. I think Morrison,O' Connor and Roth are taught at colleges not so sure about Bellow. @@TheCodeXCantina

[@zharapatterson]

If you read Philip Roth or Saul Bellow or both please let me know if you're going to feature them on your KZbin show.

[@godrilla5549]

Thanks for this video, for a minute i thought i had brain damage or something lol. Even though i'm lost by page 32, i feel like i've already spent time at the branch.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

It can feel that way at times!

[@zharapatterson]

When are you going to do The Snopes Trilogy ?

[@TheCodeXCantina]

June, July, and August of 2022

[@cathrynsmith9872]

Faulkner Certificate Program? Tell me more about this!

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

So, college lit without the annoying, boring lectures as in many bad instructor's hands, lol

[@synthmalicious7541]

Before You Read As I Lay Dying?

[@edholohan]

The Great Depression was in the 1930's, not the 1920's, as you say.

[@TheCodeXCantina]

Apologies for any confusion. Krypto phrased it strangely as he said Faulkner was 30 (he was born in 1897) and then said “1928” to finish that sentence which means he implies he’s talking about that period of 1928 (which was when Faulkner was writing the text in fall of 1928). He’s clarified in other videos that the depression officially started in 1929, but it is arguably started for smaller farmers earlier possibly 1928. If I could go back and edit in the clarification I would. It was poorly phrased and we apologize for that.

[@AndrewLeigh-v1l]

,,, by way chaps,,, if you do ever look at Shakespeare don't forget there was 39 plays not 37 😂 😂

[@eliotopian]

Ooh the perspectives has me intrigued, but the racism has me thinking about my failed attempt at reading huckleberry Finn. That book was just some country brats being racist...

[@TheCodeXCantina]

The Fifth Eliot it’s been a long time since I read that one! Hope you are well, Eliot!!