When was sanctuary written

Faulkner seems to take pleasure in withholding detail. However, there's the sense that the wrong man is arrested for the crime. The main character is this man's lawyer whose somewhat inept attempts at proving his client's innocence are not the stuff of Hollywood movies.

I enjoy Sanctuary is a novel about a murder which takes place in the house of a pair of bootleggers and where, on the night in question, a young girl, the daughter of a judge, has been taken. I enjoyed the story but for me all the descriptive passages were overwritten, straining for some poetic revelation which never quite happened for me. I felt Faulkner was trying too hard to wow me with the poetry of his prose. I suspect though he's written better novels than this one.

View 2 comments. Aug 13, Jim rated it it was amazing Shelves: author-north-american , novels , 20th-century , read-in , nobel-literature.

This is the book that put Faulkner on the map back in , 27 years before Lolita was published in the US and put Nabokov in the same public spotlight.

In both cases, these writers had produced several great novels prior, but it was their shocking portrayal of a young girl's rape that drew the public's attention. Set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Sanctuary follows the story of Horace Benbow after he leaves his wife and step-daughter. He returns to his childhood hometown, and is q This is the book that put Faulkner on the map back in , 27 years before Lolita was published in the US and put Nabokov in the same public spotlight.

He returns to his childhood hometown, and is quickly caught up in a violent underworld of moonshiners, madames, and murder. There is basically no relief in this "potboiler", as Faulkner called it. Everywhere you turn in this book, someone or something is menacing the characters and you do spend your time wondering when the whole thing is going to boil over and burn the town, the characters, and maybe you too. If you love Faulkner, this is an important part of his oeuvre and worth reading.

Feb 26, Diane Barnes rated it liked it. I have even read Cleanth Brooks analysis of this novel in "Yoknapotawpha County", and while it helped a little, I'm still confused. I know this review is unhelpful and I wish I could be clearer, but since I have no idea how to make it better, this will have to do.

And the baby in the box was just weird. View all 7 comments. Oct 25, Bettie rated it liked it Shelves: slit-yer-wrists-gloomy , north-americas , nobel-laureate , tragedy , film-only , autumn , sleazy , published , us-tennessee , us-southern. Description: Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuary is a powerful novel examining the nature of true evil, through the prisms of mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction.

This is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held. View 1 comment. I picked it up at the library book sale for a song. But I've been putting off reading it because that edition has tiny tiny print. And it smells old. So I switched to this Kindle edition for my reading.

It was a good substitute except that it has the occasional OCR error and a bit more frequently the formatting was wonky. Acceptable, but obviously inferior enough to comment about.

I couldn't help but think how different this novel would have been had it been published in the last 20 years. In the description we know there is a rape. In the 21st Century it might have been explicit. In , it was simply implicit. The writing of the incident is so oblique that naive people might miss it entirely for many pages. Still, implied or not, it is there. There are many broken people in this novel.

It is the Depression and Prohibition, but I think many of these people were broken before either of those events. There are also ignorant people, and certainly at least one very selfish one. Even so, Faulkner saw fit to insert a couple of chapters that can only be thought of as humorous. This was written some 30 years before his The Reivers , but those short and humorous chapters in this harken to that later novel that was his last one.

Also providing some comic relief are two members of the Snopes family of his trilogy by that name. Faulkner's world was his fictional Yoknapatawpha County and the more one reads him, the more one comes to live in that world with him.

It is northern Mississippi where people are either prejudiced or tolerant, and not usually both. Somewhere along the line I have read that Faulkner's prose is different in each novel. I don't know that I would go so far as to say that, but certainly in this there is no stream of consciousness for which he has a reputation. The prose is straight forward as is most of the dialogue. There is the occasional insertion of dialect, but that is not difficult.

What does come through clearly is his screen writing ability. When I think of other novels as "cinematic" I'm usually thinking of surrounding scenery. There is that here, but not in abundance. In this there are facial expressions and other types of body language. Sometimes describing these take more than a page or page and a half, letting us know what is both seen and felt.

The ending just wraps things up, telling us what happened after what is the ending of the purpose of the novel. I guess I'm glad to have had it rather than make up my own ending, but I thought it was weak. Maybe Faulkner was just tired of writing his story, but he knew it was entirely finished. I think overall the novel lacks the power of some of his others. For this reason it cannot be more than 4-stars, and perhaps it comes in just under the halfway mark in that group.

Aug 21, Ryan rated it really liked it Shelves: classics. This is considered one of Faulkner's more accessible books. He said he wrote it "just for the money". It is easier to read than many others. My problem with Faulkner is, he makes me feel dumb. I have trouble following his narratives, always have. Sometimes he can go for several pages of dialog between two characters and never refer to the identity of the person speaking.

Is this deliberate? Anyway, I only had trouble with one part of this book. There is a character named Red who shows up and get This is considered one of Faulkner's more accessible books. There is a character named Red who shows up and gets killed, but is never explained or introduced. Anyway, I guess I should read it again or I'm just too dumb to read Faulkner.

Amazing story nonetheless. A really scary book, tension could be cut with a knife. Ghastly though the plot might be, Faulkner still finds space for his dark sarcasm, without breaking the overall impression: decline, prejudice, doom. I couldn't really tell you who was who and what was what, but I really liked the baby kept in a box.

Lurid stuff, but I've had worse nightmares. Feb 24, poncho rated it really liked it Shelves: read-in When I read As I Lay Dying I had to stop several times throughout my reading because of the very peculiar and astonishing style which was new to me. When I read Sanctuary I had to stop again but because of a different reason, which is basically the evil and twisted plot. Faulkner did a great job exploring the nature of evil that unlike the two previous novels by him that I had read I got to actually feel symp When I read As I Lay Dying I had to stop several times throughout my reading because of the very peculiar and astonishing style which was new to me.

Faulkner did a great job exploring the nature of evil that unlike the two previous novels by him that I had read I got to actually feel sympathy for the characters mainly Temple and Horace as well as some kind of disgust at others.

I'm not easily scared by paranormal stories as I am when I read or watch books or films wherein the origin of the horror is something that can actually happen, that can actually hurt me or my loved ones in real life. Sanctuary is such a case: It depicts the nature of evil, ignorance, injustice, sexism, and the list goes on, to the point that, like I said, it can make you stop and try to assimilate what you just read.

So, not being a horror story, it's way more horrifying than those that usually fit into that category. In fact, I'd like to digress a bit and say I strongly believe Tobe Hooper was influenced by this book into making the settings of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So although for me the style was not as "revealing" so to speak as those of As I Lay Dying or The Sound and The Fury , and even though this was a book he only wrote out of profit he said so himself , the substance makes it one of the best of its kind with that particular way of Faulkner to mess with the reader's sense of time and place, still demanding him just a little bit in this case to expand their attention span to figure what's going on, having their faces twisted when they start piecing things together.

Really enjoyed this. What an amazing writer. The tension builds slowly. The writing style still feels modern. There is a cinematic quality, as a scene is set up and then left, and changes to another place and characters who mention what happened after leaving the previous scene. Much more powerful than spelling it out in detail. Feb 21, Jenny Reading Envy rated it liked it Shelves: southern , location-usa-mississippi , read , faulkner Sanctuary is kind of like if Faulkner and John Grisham got together to write about some horrific events ending in a trial in a small southern town.

Don't hang out with moonshiners, kids. Discussion of this one was really interesting because there was so much more to unpack than I expected. The spring at the beginning, the ending and its multiple interpretations, etc.

I can see why Faulkner referred to it as a pot-boiler but, as with some other wonderful writers Graham Greene for example , it is so well-written that it is something more than just a crime story. And what a crime story! I would put it in the category of "Brighton Rock" or perhaps classic film noir -- there is no real hero even Horace Benbow view spoiler [has his flaws, the most objectionable being his lusting after his step-daughter hide spoiler ].

The Hmmm The chapter near the end about Popeye's upbringing struck me as very modern -- something I would expect to see in a psychological thriller by Ruth Rendell. This novel was certainly one of the easiest novels of Faulkner's to read -- almost no stream-of-consciousness writing it does pop up in a few scenes and a fairly linear plot. If you have been afraid to try his books, this one might be a good place to start, but be prepared to meet a bunch of very unpleasant people!

Yet out of all the criminals moonshiners, prostitutes, etc. Jan 16, Ville Prusti rated it it was amazing. I love Faulkner. His characters are troubled and flawed, often extremely so, but so interesting and strangely quite lovable.

There are no heroes in this story and no character without a dark, more unpleasant side. Sanctuary is "easier" than some of his other works not much of the stream of consciousness or structural experimentation, quite straightforward , but it's dark as hell. It's basically a crime story, dealing with the effects of horrible trauma and violence. The overall mood is the epit I love Faulkner. The overall mood is the epitome of Southern Gothic. I'm also reminded of the movies of David Lynch.

There's a bit more humour than I've seen in Faulkner before, especially in the rather Dickensian character of Miss Reba, a darkly comic figure with her two dogs named after herself and her dead husband. Another very memorable character, Popeye, is a chilling portrayal of evil, but even he isn't really just a one-sided villain. Maybe that's what makes him all the more terrifying.

For someone new to Faulkner this might be a good place to start. While he claimed to have written it mainly for profit, it's still a very good book and if considered a crime novel, it's miles above most other such novels I've read. Aug 06, Balu rated it it was amazing Shelves: faulkner. Expectations were very high, and I was not disappointed. It worked really well for me until the last chapter, which I found to be very confusing and because of it I gave it 4.

Overall, if you love Faulkner this is a book for you. Oct 27, Nick rated it it was amazing Shelves: spring This gets five full-blown stars this time around. The full wickedness of the book's title is only understood after reading. He succeeds at this but the book is still a work of art. The characters can be split into two camps, those with a moral compass and those without. Those with poor Horace are bound to be disappointed, by the world and by themselves. But each unhappy person is unhappy in his own w This gets five full-blown stars this time around.

But each unhappy person is unhappy in his own way, so with Temple--consumed by earthly desires--and with Popeye--who was shut out from ever experiencing them chiefly sex, booze, in "Sanctuary" the bases of friendship, love from childhood. They are cursed in opposite manners. Also running throughout is the association of femininity with springtime, hardly a new development, but here Faulkner treats both as something strangely sinister and even filthy think Mr.

Admins Sfinn85 Steve. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. He destroys a few Heartless and ascends the stairs where he suddenly finds himself in the Grand Hall, where he sees and unconscious Kairi. He rushes over to her to see if she's okay, but soon realises that Riku is behind him, wearing his dark armor.

Riku is then seen in a similar situation as the first opening, with the wave about to hit him asking Sora to come with him, but Sora rushes to fight him rather than save him. They exchange blows before Riku suddenly turns into Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. Sora attacks him, and we transition to Ansem opening the Door to Darkness and getting destroyed, followed by Riku telling Sora to take care of everyone. We then see Sora releasing his heart and saving Kairi.

Kairi sadly stands on Destiny Islands, gazing out into the horizon. She then sees sparkles fall from the sky as the worlds get restored. Sora shouts something to Kairi as he drifts into the Realm of Darkness to rescue Riku. Kairi stares at the hole between realms, and suddenly we cut to a year later. Kairi is still looking out into the horizon, looking distant at first before sadly smiling. She draws a picture of a spiral staircase, which suddenly becomes real. Sora, Donald and Goofy are seen running up this staircase, destroying Heartless along the way.

They are suddenly confronted by a hooded figure and DiZ , before Sora finds himself facing Marluxia. The two fight, and we see Riku fighting Ansem at the same time.

Sora, Donald and Goofy are then seen chasing a Riku up the spiral staircase, we briefly see the real Riku following Mickey on the staircase too, but they are upside down and heading downstairs. Sora then falls asleep, and is then see flying back to Destiny Islands, which forms around him. He is last seen holding hands with Riku and Kairi as they lie on the beach.

Suddenly then camera is plunged into the black void from the first opening, as Roxas emerges from Sora like an object slamming into the ocean, and he drifts down into the void similar to how Sora did in the first opening.

Roxas eventually lands on something.