![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a sequel of sorts to a pair of texts Faulkner published twenty years earlier: "That Evening Sun," where Nancy first appears, and Sanctuary, where Temple and Gowan get into the trouble that haunts them and their marriage in the dramatic portions of this novel. The novel's own history is two decades long, and too complicated to do more than sketch out here. 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). ![]()
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