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S/LI/418. Lukács dismisses Modernist writing as ‘escape into nothingness', as an evasion of the artist's responsibility to examine social realities. Is this a fair criticism of The Sound and the Fury?

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2010
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The paper critically examines the rejection of modernist literature by Georg Lukács who claims that it is incapable of revealing social issues. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner is discussed as a classic modernist novel arguing that the interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness do not prevent the author from addressing social issues.

 

KEYWORDS: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, modernist literature, stream-of-consciousness, interior monologue, social issues, Georg Lukács,

 
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