Background to The Sound and the Fury

This is Christopher here and welcome to my blog. Hope whoever's reading this enjoys what I have to say as much as I love wasting your time. This blog will document my epic battle with William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. As of now I am still sizing up my opponent. Faulkner apparently sets most of his works in a county called Yoknaptawpha, including the novel I'm about to read. That is the coolest fictional name I've ever seen. It's the type of name you can scream as you charge into battle and only look slightly insane. But on the more serious side, that word comes from two Chickasaw words that together mean "split land". Faulkner himself spent most of his life in the South, in Virginia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. These southern landscapes are reflected in his fictitious county with a lot of class and racial conflict. Faulkner, according to my slightly enamored teacher, did not follow the racial prejudices of many Southerners and actually defended the rights of African Americans. Other more interesting facts about Faulkner:

• His middle name is Cuthbert.
• He based many of his stories off of real encounters.
• He smoked a pipe with utmost swagger.
• He tried to maintain his privacy. Sadly, he was too famous for that.
• He drank like a fish. An Irish fish.