Faulkner gave four narrators (including one severely cognitively impaired) their own prose registers to tell the same story of a Southern family's disintegration. Chronology is dismantled. The difficulty is the point. Modern Library ranked it sixth; it won Faulkner the first of his two Nobels in spirit, if not on paper.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.