William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury", published in 1929, is a masterpiece of modernist literature that explores the decline of traditional values in the American South. The book, which has been translated into numerous languages, including "Buka i bes" in some Slavic languages, is a complex and non-linear narrative that defies easy interpretation. This essay will examine the ways in which Faulkner critiques the Old South and the aristocratic values that once defined it.