About the book: year / “Sanctuary” by W. Faulkner is one of the most striking and talented novels, including “The Sound and the Fury”, “ Light in August", "Absalom, Absalom", the Snopes trilogy. “Sanctuary” is a cry of pain from a man who saw that there is no such meanness, such cynicism that the American trader is not capable of. However, Faulkner argued that an artist should depict evil only in order to defeat it. In this sense, "Sanctuary" is an American "Crime and Punishment" with all the characteristic features of American national life.