![]() It is followed by two sections that also use this technique from the perspective of Benjy's brothers Quentin and Jason, and a fourth section written in the third-person omniscient style. Revised, Benjy's narrative became the first section of the novel. Of his choice to begin with Benjy Compson, Faulkner said that "the idea struck me to see how much more I could out of the idea of the blind, selfcenteredness of innocence, typified by children, if one of those children had been truly innocent, that is, an idiot.” The technique Faulkner uses is called "stream-of-consciousness" or "interior monologue," and his use of it draws from such influences as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and especially James Joyce. Another of these stories, titled "Twilight," depicted the family from within the consciousness of a 33-year-old severely retarded and childlike man. One of them, "That Evening Sun," was separately published in 1931. As he later said about this period, "I said to myself, now I can write." While his friend Ben Wasson made the changes the publishers demanded in the first novel, published in 1929 as well, Faulkner himself furiously penned a series of short stories about a fictional family named Compson. ![]() Its composition marked a turning point in his career: after publishers had initially blocked Flags in the Dust and demanded extreme cuts in the manuscript, Faulkner took the setback as an opportunity. Faulkner's second Yoknapatawpha novel, The Sound the the Fury, was published on October 7, 1929. ![]()
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