Sartoris by William Faulkner [1964 PAPERBACK] • Signet Classics

Sartoris by William Faulkner

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1964] SIGNET CLASSICS

Vintage mass market printing in very good conditions.

Cover has some tanning / wear to edges. 

Pages are bright, white and read good as new. 

*signature of orig. owner at top of first page.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The specter of an heroic past is ever present in Sartoris, casting its ironic light upon the novel's protagonists. Heirs to the aristocratic traditions of the Old South, they have been left with only romantic rhetoric, pride, and self-pity to face a world that no longer mirrors their self-image. Bayard Sartoris seeks refuge in compulsive acts of physical cour-age; Horace Benbow, in a bloodless aestheti-cism; and Narcissa Benbow, in a desperate clinging to appearances. But for them there is to be no escape-only ultimate futility, whether in the form of violent self-destruc-tion, or a living death in a fragile world of dreams. A brilliant dissection of a decaying social class, and a vivid evocation of both the physical landscape and psychological climate of the South, Sartoris introduces many of the key themes, places, and characters of the Faulkner canon.