for her killing of Temple's baby. In later decades, the book was not considered marketable by publishers and for a time was not available in a paperback or other inexpensive edition. Its ongoing significance was primarily as a sequel to Faulkner's more highly regarded novel, Sanctuary. "The past" Requiem for a Nun is the source of one of Faulkner's best-known lines, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." This line is often paraphrased, as it was by then-Senator Barack Obama in his speech "A More Perfect Union". In 2012, Faulkner Literary Rights LLC filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sony Pictures Classics over a scene in the film Midnight in Paris, in which a time-traveling character says, "The past is not dead! Actually, it's not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. And I met him, too. I ran into him at a dinner party." In 2013, the judge dismissed Faulkner Literary Rights LLC's claim, ruling that the use of the quote in the film was de minimis and constituted "fair use". Adaptations The novel was dramatized for the theater in 1956 by Albert Camus, entitled Requiem pour une nonne. Camus also wrote the preface to the 1957 French translation of the novel by Maurice Coindreau. The novel was a co-source for the 1961 film Sanctuary. Oscar Strasnoy's opera Requiem was first produced at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, 2014. References Notes Further reading Fowler, Doreen. "Reading for the "Other Side": Beloved and Requiem for a Nun." In: Kolmerton, Carol A., Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg (editors). Unflinching Gaze: Faulkner and Morrison Re-Imagined. University Press of Mississippi, 1997. , 9781617035296. Start: p. 139. External links Requiem for a Nun - Penguin Random House Requiem for a Nun: Commentary - William Faulkner on the Web, University of Mississippi Requiem for a Nun at Digital Yoknapatawpha 1951 American novels American novels adapted into films Novels by William Faulkner Novels set in Mississippi Random House books Sequel novels