The glorious book nerds at The Folio Society have issued a new edition of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, printed as Faulkner wished — with multiple colors denoting the time and point-of-view shifts.
It is $345, in slipcover, on archival paper, with a commentary volume, and I WANTS IT.
I want it too!
BUT.
Doing only the Benjy section this way? Jason and Dilsey don’t need the coloring because they don’t jump around all over the place. Quentin, however, is another story entirely. I found in my original reading that Quentin was much harder to follow than Benjy, mostly because Benjy has fewer things he jumps between.
If it sells out of its (no doubt very small) print run, I would be willing to bet that Random House (who has Faulkner’s copyright) will put out a more reasonably priced version in the near future. Money to be made.