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Two novels by William Faulkner, Sound and Fury and Absalom, Absalom! are analysed. They are united by two themes, incest and filiation. The link between these two aspects is viewed as representing two sides of the same issue in the society of the south of the United States. This tragic issue is compared with the forms of Greek tragedy on the one hand and with the traces of conscious and unconscious memory on the other.