Munich, Germany in The Mansion (Location)

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Early in Chapter 9 Charles Mallison mentions "Munich," though his equivocation - "observed or celebrated or consecrated" - and his uncle Gavin's commentary - "It wont be long now" - probably won't explain themselves to 21st-century readers (229). In 1938 Munich was the site where leaders from England, France and Italy met with Nazi Germany to sanction Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia; this act of appeasement was supposedly meant, as the British Prime Minister who signed it famously said, "peace for our time." Gavin's "it," on the other hand, refers to the inevitability of a major war. Like the novel's deployments of "Spain" and "Ethiopia," "Munich" connects Faulkner's north Mississippi county to the larger history of the modern world.

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