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- Sales Rank: #3866713 in Books
- Published on: 1952
- Released on: 1952-01-01
- Binding: Hardcover
- 254 pages
Chatto & Windus Publisher 1952 edition hard back book with dust jacket price unclipped Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1949 . Blue cloth boards some age toning to pages vg clean copy #48
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By John P. Jones III
I've been reading, or re-reading numerous of Faulkner's works, all in the hopes of someday attending the annual Faulkner love-fest, which takes place in Oxford, MS, each July. Since I am still rolling a large stone uphill, a la Sisyphus, it seems that it will again elude me this year. (And I've received assurances that it is not just "de-constructionist academics" honing and displaying their latest scrap of arcane knowledge that attend such events - there are numerous plain old simple folks... who've had some other sort of "day job," with "rough-hewed, labor-worn hands," but have been mesmerized by the master of Yoknapatawpha County's ability to render deep insights into the human condition.) In this case, "Sanctuary" is a re-read, of some 40 years ago.Warning Label: It is not for the "fun-read" crowd. And if you're looking for inspiring characters, there might be all of which you can count on one finger of your hand. The story is set during the days of Prohibition, and much of the action centers around the "moonshiners," and their interactions with the "higher" social classes who seek out the solace that is purportedly provided by their principal product."Put a Mississippian in alcohol, and you have a gentleman," as Faulkner sardonically observes, and, I suppose, he did know a thing or two on the subject. Gowan Stephens, "educated" at Virginia, and Oxford (not to be confused with the locale of Ole Miss) in the proper methods of drinking, demonstrates, in the company of the ever-flighty Ole Miss co-ed, Temple Drake, that he has not only learned nothing, but is far lower, in terms of ethics, than even the moonshiners who lead a very hard-scrabble, difficult existence. But Stephens himself is a paragon of virtue compared to Temple Drake, one of the most scathing portraits of evil in the female gender available in literature. So much so that a critic might accuse Faulkner of being somewhat misogynistic, save for the fact that virtually none of the men seem to come off much better. At least Popeye, as Faulkner reveals towards the end, has some sort of "excuse." But what does Temple have - save a fine Old South upbringing? She is, indeed, the heart of darkness. Politically-correct though it might not be, there are those evil women who seem to delight in stirring the passions of men into a fight over them, not to mention seeming to enjoy "rape games": "you wouldn't hit me, would you?"Faulkner needed to make some money since two classic masterpieces of American literature, The Sound And The Fury (Vintage Classics) and As I Lay Dying barely stirred the sales chart. As I once told my boss, who wanted to encourage greater readership of an electronic medical newsletter: "just put in some sex and violence." Hardly an original idea, which Faulkner had had, in spades, some 70 years earlier. Thus we learn about the various versions of prostitution in the Old South, from the "respectable" reason of getting your man out of prison to the running of a "respectable" house, in Memphis, suitable for visits from all the local power structure. There is the obsession with "appearances" that dominates actions in most small towns, in most cultures, but particularly in the Old South. The lawyer is the Good Guy in this one, flawed though he might be, and operative in a most flawed judicial process. Faulkner being Faulkner, he obscures the identity and relationship of the characters early on... ya gotta pay attention.... as he might say, and masterfully reveals them as the novel progresses. And some are brilliantly etched, and will remain vivid and memorable, hopefully forever. And whatever your fate in life, consider that it is better never having crossed the path of Ms. Temple. Feel that no spoiler alert need be mentioned, but somehow the novel ends in the tranquility of the Luxembourg Gardens "...where the children and an old man in a shabby brown overcoat sailed toy boats..." and the band in the pavilion played "...Berlioz like a thin coating of tortured Tschaikovsky on a slice of stale bread, while the twilight dissolved in wet gleams from the branches..." Quintessential prose from the master. 5-stars.
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By Guardian of the Scales
Sanctuary was written by William Faulkner in 1931, purely for money, according to Faulkner himself. It came in the wake of the commercial failure of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, and was markedly more popular, though much criticised for violence and immorality.Sanctuary, unlike its predecessors, has a linear narrative which is easy to follow, for the most part. The plot is set in motion when rich kids Gowan Stevens and Temple Drake crash their car and seek help in a bootlegger's house, where they are given accomodation for the night.This house is inhabited not only by the bootlegger Goodwin and his wife but also by various acquaintances of his including the shadowy and threatening Popeye. The scenario at this point is somewhat reminiscent of Texas Chainsaw Massacre or other such movies. There is an atmosphere of simmering violence but the actual violence is never openly described.Following the commission of a crime at the bootlegger's house, the focus widens to include local lawyer Horace Benbow, a mild and decent everyman who becomes involved in the case because he believes that the wrong man has been arrested( and the reader knows that he is correct in this) and possibly also because he has feelings for the defendant's wife. The action later moves to a brothel(the "sanctuary" of the title?) where members of the Snopes family, recurring characters in Faulkner, appear, and serve primarily as comic relief.Overall this is a somewhat lurid and sensationalist tale, by 1930's standards, at least. The violence is not accompanied by any moral judgement by the author. As with most of Faulkner's books, he gives no clue as to where his sympathies lie; this is one of his great strengths, imo. This is a very readable book, suspenseful, sometimes funny, set in a dark, cruel and unsentimental world( most similar to Light in August). Though no masterpiece, this book is sure to appeal to all devotees of Faulkner and his particular worldview, and is also an accessible starting-point for those unfamiliar with this great writer.
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By Officer Dibble
The Penguin Classic cover states, 'no perceptive reader..will mistake it for a lurid narrative of violence'. Well, this review is being written by a non-perceptive reader.A small gang of moonshiners live in the backwoods of Tennessee led by world weary Goodwin and his unnamed moll. A drunken young couple foolishly stray out of town to get more alcohol and despite warnings stay the night. For Temple, the teenage girl who is a wild-child way out of her depth, it becomes a nightmare culminating in rape and abduction by the emotionally disturbed gangster Popeye.Temple is transferred to a brothel in Memphis run by the outrageous Miss Reba while Popeye acts as pimp and indulges in some disturbing sexual deviance. Quite how this got past the censors in 1931 is baffling. Goodwin discovers that another one of his gang has been killed when Popeye left and having reported the crime is wrongly arrested.The core story then interlinks the search by small town lawyer Horace Benbow for Temple, as the only witness who can save Goodwin from the Chair, with Benbow's own covetous feelings for the gangster's wife. Benbow is central to the novel as he does what is 'right' in the face of prejudice but there are countless more convincing candidates for this role in American literature.Faulkner's style can sometimes be difficult and he has an obsession with the words 'whirling' and 'whirled'. There are a couple of amusing scenes both revolving around the brothel but this is a dark unremitting tale.This is not Nobel Prize-winning stuff. There is a 'rumour' that Faulkner deliberately courted publicity with this racy, violent pot-boiler for his later better-known works. Whether the 'rumour' is true or not, on this evidence I could well believe it.
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