William Faulkner

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Sanctuary (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

William Faulkner's "Sanctuary" is a strong and controversial novel that came out in 1931. The story takes place in Faulkner's made-up county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, during Prohibition. It's about how bad people connected to bootlegger Lee Goodwin abduct and rape an upper-class college girl named Temple Drake. The book shows how this sad event set off a complicated chain of events. The story is told from Horace Benbow's point of view. He is a disillusioned lawyer who goes back to his city, Jefferson. He helps defend Goodwin, who is being accused of a crime he did not commit. Temple's life takes a bad turn when she ends up living in a brothel in Memphis run by the violent and powerless Popeye. The story explores themes of corruption, sexual abuse, and the dark side of society during a troubled time. Faulkner does a superb job of looking at how people's actions affect them and how hard it is to be forgiven, while also showing the harsh facts of a society that struggles with morals and justice. "Sanctuary" was a turning point in Faulkner's career. It was both popular and well-received by critics, even though he said it was a "potboiler" written to make money. The book is still a powerful and frightening look at the worst parts of human nature.

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Autor

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789359398297
• Artikelnr.: 73569694