Benjy, Narrativity, and the Coherence of Compson History

Abstract

[S]tories lived and imagined, told and untold constitute the very sphere in which we live. In fact amongst all the linguistic expressions of an essentially discursive existence, narrative is the most all-embracing, the least reductively selective: it reflects and actualizes nothing less than our experience as essentially temporal beings, it reproduces and verbalizes our very shaping of the flux of time.