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Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Narrated by the Compson siblingsβBenjy, a source of shame for his family due to his diminished mental capacity; brilliant and obsessive Quentin; and Jason, the cynicβas well as Dilsey, the powerful matriarch of their black servants, The Sound and the Fury is a tragedy of haunted lives.
As each of these characters reflect on the fourth sibling, beautiful and free-spirited Caddy, Faulkner paints an indelible portrait of a family in disarray. This satirical novel follows U. Catch is widely seen as one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. The Party he has long served tortures him and demands he confess to crimes they know he has not committed. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-class family rife with conflict.
November 2, It is the Day of the Dead, and Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic bureaucrat, is stumbling around the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac in a last-ditch attempt to win his wife back. Set over the course of the day, Under the Volcano follows Firmin as he drinks wine, beer, mezcal, and tequila in a world that is as menacing and meaningless as it is exhilarating.
