The Sound and the Fury

The story of the decay and fall of the Compson family is told through separate monologues by the three brothers of Caddy Compson:  the idiot Benjy, the neurotic and suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.  The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's first major novel (1929), set in his ficitonal Yoknapatawpha Country, in Mississippi. Here's the opening of the 1959 film:

Links:

Bosley Crowther's Review of the film in the New York Times (March 28, 1959).

William Faulkner on the Web (Old Miss).