Jan 1, 2010

Barn Burning | What Do I Read Next?

The stories in Faulkner's The Hamlet form a cycle of tales dealing with the Sartoris and Snopes families, tracing their intertwinings and degenerations from the time of Abner Snopes to the early twentieth century.

Faulkner's Sanctuary (1931) is a novel of irrationality and violence that has been criticized for exploiting the violence that ‘‘Barn Burning’’ seems to condemn. Written as a potboiler, Sanctuary will also give a sense of Faulkner's more...