Sutpen Plantation in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

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Sutpen Plantation
Map Icon: 
Mansion
Authority : 
Faulkner map
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785
Y: 
193
Description: 

The narrative mentions the "tract" of land acquired by "a man named Sutpen" and on which he is "bent on establishing a place on an ever more ambitious and grandiose scale than Grenier's" (30) - a story that Faulkner tells in Absalom, Absalom!. ("Ever" may be a typo for "even.")

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Site of Event
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Built
Types: 
Plantation

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