Faulkner's Selected Works Series: the Temple
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About This Novel
"The Temple" was published in 1931 and was Faulkner's first novel to gain a large readership. In the 1920s, there was a group of bootleggers headed by Goldfish Eyes in a southern town. Temple, a naive female college student, was abandoned by her boyfriend and got mixed up with the gang. She was raped and sent to a brothel in Fes by Goldfish Eyes. After Goldfish Eyes killed someone, he put the blame on Godwin. Attorney Horace did a lot of evidence collection work to save Temple from the fire pit. However, Temple has been driven insane by Jinyuyan's perverted sexual behavior, causing her inner imbalance. In the end, she committed perjury, allowing Jinyuyan to escape the law. Although the novel uses the narrative mode of popular detective novels, it also has naturalistic descriptions. It is an excellent work both in terms of theme and expression.
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