Temple: The Complete Works of Faulkner

Author: [American] William Faulkner, translated by Tao Jie
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: If we place The Temple within this grand canvas of Southern society, we will find that it depicts precisely such a scene of a corrupted modern Southern society. The Temple portrays a scene of a corrupted Southern society, ranking as Faulkner's most powerful work in exposing and condemning the ugly realities of the American South. The novel's plot is dark and violent, depicting the Prohibition era in the 1920s when a group of bootleggers led by Jinfish Eye operated in a Southern town. After being abandoned by her boyfriend, the female college student and was brutally raped. Later, Jinfish Eye sent her to a brothel in Fitchburg. Jinfish Eye killed someone and framed Underdown. The lawyer persuaded to testify in court, but she had already been mentally shattered by Jinfish Eye's. Underdown was still sentenced to death and was eventually burned to death by a mob. The escaped Jinfish Eye was also sentenced to death for a murder he had not participated in.