Written in 1932, William Faulkner’s novel “Light in August,” belonging to the “Yoknapatawpha” cycle, is considered one of the great prose writer’s best works. An unassuming story of a girl from the southern backwoods, her seducer who abandons her, an excommunicated priest in disgrace, and a reclusive outsider of mixed blood in Faulkner’s hands turns into a tragic saga of the American South. A South where dark family secrets are kept, racism and cruelty flourish, and love and hatred reach an almost antique scale…