According to the myth, southern society was the land of moonlight, magnolias and lovers. ,,Sanctuary". Faulkner's own favourite novel. It was a scandalous novel. One of the characters is young gentleman who likes to drink a lot. He gets acquainted with a young upperclass girl and because he is drunk he accidentally bootlegging gangsters. She is about to be raped with corn, plant. Another member of the gang Popeye shoots him infront of the girl and rapes her himself. Later popeye takes drake to whorehouse and arranges other man to have sex with the girl in front of him. Popeye enjoys this new kind of life. Camus and Sartres favourite book. The south for faulkner is a scene in which the humanity of the people is tested. Humans act out their lives under cestain conditions, to see if they can survive. Faulkner says that the one essential quality is humanity. If there is no humanity there is no hope for humanity. The problems in the south. All these problems are turned into test for the
who enjoyed simple masculine pleasures. He would rise at dawn to go duckhunting, shot a good enough game of golf to have won the Greene County (Indiana) championship in 1932, and played poker with a compulsive intensity wherever and whenever he could. He regaled his companions with a flood of amusing stories, told with the wit and gusto of a natural raconteur. He was the very opposite of stuffy, and did not hesitate to admit that he knew his way around in a Chinese whorehouse. He kept a Chinese and a German mistress* and once organized a virtual Oriental orgy for a young correspondent, later nationally famous, on the ground that it was necessary for him to be blooded as a man. He enjoyed the loyalty and friendship of a great many people, though not everybody liked him. Emily Hahn, in her China to Me, said bluntly that she did not, calling him "an American with a loud manner of talking." His original enterprise, which had enabled him to create MI-8 and the Black
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