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Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner. It is a sequel to Faulkner's early novel Sanctuary, which introduced the characters of Temple Drake, her friend (later husband) Gowan Stevens, and Gowan's uncle Gavin Stevens.
- William Faulkner
- 1951
Requiem for a Nun. William Faulkner. 3.54. 1,222 ratings137 reviews. This sequel to Faulkner's SANCTUARY written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in SANCTUARY. Genres Fiction Classics American Literature 20th Century Novels Plays. ...more. 245 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1950.
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5. Sept. 2023 · Requiem for a Nun is the sequel to William Faulkner's bestselling novel Sanctuary. It centers on the character of Temple Drake eight years after her harrowing kidnapping ordeal...
Mr. Faulkner's new offering, Requiem for a Nun, is in the main a sequel to Sanctuary, and is concerned with the further misadventures of Temple Drake, a tomboy whose qualities have always had an unsettling effect on her creator.
9. Feb. 2012 · Requiem for a Nun (1951) is the source for Faulkner's best-known aphorism: "The past is never dead," Gavin Stevens tells Temple Drake in Act I, Scene III; "It's not even past" (73). The novel's own history is two decades long, and too complicated to do more than sketch out here.
1. Nov. 2020 · Während Requiem for a Nun, von Faulkner selbst ursprünglich als Lesedrama konzipiert, in den USA zunächst für kaum aufführbar gehalten wurde, konnte es sich auf deutschsprachigen und vor allem auf französischen Bühnen (vgl. das Vorwort zu Albert Camus' Bearbeitung von 1956) rasch durchsetzen.
3. Jan. 2012 · Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan’s child. Told partly in prose, partly in play form, Requiem for a Nun is a haunting exploration of the impact of the past on the present.
