TWIL: William Faulkner wrote a very bad novel

I was looking up the “Caddy” reference in The Sound and The Fury, and found that I have only ever read the Benjy section, and I have been referencing it incorrectly for years.

I felt bad about that, until I discovered the existence of William Faulkner’s sixth novel, Sanctuary, which was just a piece of trash he wrote for money.

Start here with Development and then read on to Reception. If you really want to be repelled, scroll up to the plot summary. Bootlegging! Popeye! Corncobs! Paris! It sounds awful.

In high school they had me read A Rose for Emily, and my literature professor made us read The Bear with its six-page long sentence, and even they were so repelled by Sanctuary that they pretended it didn’t exist.


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