Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters" of 'Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept...
...Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept...
...Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance to save their souls (TIME, Sept...
...Requiem is notable for lesser things: a structure spliced play-fashion into acts and scenes, a breathless, 49-page, nonstop sentence, one of the longest in world literature,* and a story which reads like a moral sequel to Faulkner's own gamy shocker, Sanctuary...
...Requiem finds Temple and Gowan eight years older, but not much wiser. Bound by shame rather than love, they have married, have two children. Gowan is strictly on the wagon, but doubts that he is the father of the elder child. Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns for the bad old days, licks the memory of evil as a tongue searches a newly empty tooth-socket. She gets her chance to sin again when Red's younger brother Pete shows up to blackmail her with a packet of her own racy love letters to Red. Staring...