Absalom Absalom The Corrected Text Author:William Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Faulkner Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in "The Sound and the Fury", this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty. His refusal to accept his wife's Negro blood initiates a bloody train of events to create a vision of doom of the American South.