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Recently, I started reading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. I am ~50 pages in and I don't understand any of it. The stream of consciousness narrative is infuriatingly hard to read, and the storyline jumps across decades without any warning. What are some techniques I can use to improve my comprehension of the book?
What are you trying to optimize for? Are you sure the experience you're having now isn't the whole point of the thing?
Are you saying the whole point of the book is to confuse readers?
I was thinking that might be part of the experience the book was trying to induce, yes. Something along the lines of this.
The entire book is actually just the greatest troll in the history of literature!
The beginning section, Benjy, is a bunch of different narrative timelines spliced together and switched out of order. Wait until you get to the Quentin section. It gets even worse.
I'm not sure, but my recollection is that the other parts aren't as hard as Benjy's bit. It's been a few years, though.