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From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury : The Syntax of Interrogation

1988; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/mfs.0.0998

1080-658X

Cheryl Lester,

Samuel Beckett and Modernism

Because the individual sections of The Sound and the Fury are not intelligible in themselves, readings of this novel depend on the complex interplay between the sections.For this reason, the analytical approach generally brought to bear on this novel can analyze, in its most successful application, only the critical or fictional synthesis into which its individual sections have been read.Yet studies of The Sound and the Fury that proceed from section to section, like those of Olga Vickery or Wolfgang Iser, or that concentrate on one section alone, like that of George Stewart and Joseph Backus, give the mistaken impression that the significance of the novel is the sum of four independently meaningful parts, individually calculated and added up.Analyses of The Sound and the Fury generally refer to the relationship among the sections only in order to characterize the development of the novel as a whole.The novel is most often said to shift, particularly with the fourth section, from obscurity to clarity, from privacy to universality, or from subjectivity to objectivity.