Sanctuary: William Faulkner's Most Savage Novel

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William Faulkner's Sanctuary is a brutal story of vice and sin in 1920s Mississippi. Part pulp crime novel, part courtroom drama, and part southern gothic atmosphere piece, it's the tragic story of Temple Drake, the debutante who gets in more trouble than she ever imagined.
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4 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 11

@derrickmurray930 6 месяцев назад

You hit the nail on the head with this commentary.

@montanagal6958 Год назад

I love this book. Helped me understand Stockholm Syndrome, in myself. I don't think anyone can "touch" the depth of Faulkner regarding the human condition except Dostoevsky.

@JimReadsTooSlow 2 года назад

Great review - I also came to Faulkner late. I read As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary and A Light in August last year, and I’m reading The Hamlet now. I love Faulkner. And I also don’t believe for a second his claim that he wrote Sanctuary just for the money

@reaganwiles_art 2 года назад

Good review. I'll have to reread Red Harvest, I have it here. Sanctuary took me a couple get ats to get through, but i did and liked it. Pylon I started once and got distracted. I can now enjoy anything by Faulkner. I've read most. Always reading something by him. Thanks. Oh, I like Go Down Moses a lot, Sound and Fury too and Flags in the Dust; those're my recs.

@BNJA5M1N3 2 года назад

I've always loved Faulkner since high school literature class because he's the first author I saw that wrote seemingly chaotically like me.

@TH3F4LC0Nx 2 года назад

To me Faulker a lot of the time is style over substance, but that's not meant to be dismissive. I've read The Sound and the Fury and Light in August and while I can commend the craft I didn't find the stories all that engaging. But I think I might actually like Sanctuary a bit more since it's more straightforward and has fewer frills. Anyway, good review! ;)

@TheJudgeandtheJury 2 года назад

So glad you are reviewing Faulkner!! I love him! Sanctuary is my second favorite next to Absalom Absalom, Absalom is just a masterpiece. If you like Faulkner you should check out Cormac McCarthy; Blood Meridian and Suttree is his best but All The Pretty Horses and The Road is his most accessible. Out of your Faulkner reads which one would you say is your favorite? Also I preferred the movie than the book of The Maltese Falcon.

@LoganAlbright73 2 года назад

As I Lay Dying is definitely my favorite so far, but I really haven’t read many yet. I’ll make a point of checking out Absalom.

@BloodIncantationTab 2 года назад

never stop these, you are doing a great service!

@michauxborns 11 месяцев назад

"...I thought that maybe I would be all right if I just had a hill to lie on for a while - it was that country. Flat & rich & foul, so that the very winds seem to engender money out of it. Five thousand square miles, [Read. More.] without any hill save the bumps of dirt the Indians made to stand on when the River overflowed. ...I just wanted a hill to lie on, you see. Then I would be all right." [-Wm. Faulkner ("Sanctuary")]

@stevenv6463 Год назад

Not only is there this thing about criticizing young people for being irresponsible but there's also this thing about how she got every advantage in life while the woman helping her was screwed over so many times. I really felt bad for her. It kind of reminds me of how one critic talking about Camus' the Stranger said that the Algerians in the story are the other or real strangers. Even though the book ostensibly focuses on Temple Drake(Temple of Dragon? Interesting name, what is the significance of that?), it is really the woman who was so abused in life who is the one who we should sympathize with in my opinion. Also reading it, it really seemed that a bunch of other people raped Temple before Popeye on the first night she was in the house. Very hard to follow as you said. It also seemed that Popeye was black at times.