O presente como som, o passado como fúria: a ruína no tempo-espaço em the sound and the fury de William Faulkner

Abstract

As one of the most influential writers of his time, William Faulkner has left a legacy of novels that sets us before the man in his truest state: a man tormented by a past that haunts and will haunt him as long as there is present. Because the man is the sum of his misfortunes, said one of the characters from The Sound and The Fury (1929) - a novel this study will focus. Under the space-time theories, the present study will shed light on the four characters that narrate the four chapters of the book in order to highlight the possible existence of a "feeling of ruin" in each of them, leading them to an "antagonism" against themselves. In this way, leading to "tragic ends" of those characters. Based on the theories of space by Brandão (2013) and Lins (1976) among others; theories of time by Moisés (2006) and Richardson (2012); and Bakhtin's time-space (2012), the research aims to discuss if it is possible for a character to find an end in himself from the context and, consequently, from the time it inhabits. The present study aims to reveal how this feeling is built.