Faulkner's Black Holes: Vision and Vomit in Sanctuary. The Mississippi Quarterly | June 22, 1996| | COPYRIGHT 1996 Mississippi State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

I. "A power that disrupts the most well-ordered entrails."(1)

To READ FAULKNER'S SANCTUARY (1931) IS TO RISK GOING CRAZY: this, at least, is what we must surmise from the testimony of the novel's early reviewers. Henry Seidel Canby insists that no "sane reader" can possibly "doubt" that "the end of all sanity in fiction" lies "along the path" that the novel leads us.(2) Sanctuary, says another reviewer, threatens us because it gives "flesh" "to ... creatures almost too sick or too depraved to be called human" at all.(3) Granville Hicks calls Faulkner's characters ...

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