Quentin Compson scion of the lineage whose ruin is described in "Noise and Fury" recreates, with the help of his Harvard roommate, the stubborn efforts of Thomas Stupen to rule a large plantation and found a dynasty. Destruction and failure are the final conclusion of a story of violence, pride, incest and crime.In a letter to Harrison Smith -- the 1929 editor of The Noise and the Fury -- dated on a Thursday in August 1934, it is where we begin to get the first news for this novel: "... I have a title for her that I like, Incidentally, Absalom, Absalom !: the story of a man who wanted to have a son by force of pride, who had too many, and whom his children destroyed ". This germ of his work was completed by Faulkner in Mississippi on January 31, 1936. "It is a tortured story and a torture to write it" I would blurt out its editor and friend Ben Cerf. Faulkner continued to think about the novel even after finishing it.He wrote an orderly chronology. The genealogy included seventeen characters and I would go over it again to add more details by hand. Then he incorporated a map of Yoknapatawpha County and drew the Tallahatchie to the north and the Yoknapatawpha to the south, vertically bisecting the county with the John Sartoris Railroad ... He carefully identified twenty-seven places. He included the extent of the county and its population, and then wrote: "William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor." Fourteen years later, in 1950, the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature confirmed that Faulkner was, is, and will continue to be one of the Masters of Universal Literature, a model for generations of writers and readers around the world.