“William Faulkner gets my vote for Greatest American Novelist, and “The Sound and the Fury” is his masterpiece. If ever you were in doubt about the meaning of the term “Southern Gothic,” look no further. This portrayal of the last gasps of the Compson family, descended from “governors and generals,” mired in decay, poverty, suicide, incest, madness, alcoholism, mental retardation, death – is Faulkner’s apocalyptic vision of the Deep South in microcosm. Faulkner’s South is a blighted...”

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