The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from The Sound and the Fury to Light in August

Andre Bleikasten

ISBN 10: 0253312000 / ISBN 13: 9780253312006

Published by Indiana Univeristy Press, 1990

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Protected jacket and covers in near fine shape, binding straight, first half of book marked in pencil by American novelist William Heath, author of an award-winning novel about the civil rights movement in Mississippi, The Children Bob Moses Led. There is no better critical study of Faulkner than this book, very rare and highly collectible. Bookseller Inventory #

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The period from the late 1920s to the early 1940s was in Faulkner's career one of prodigious fertility, and the creative outburst on which it opens―from The Sound and the Fury (1929) through As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931) to Light in August (1932)―touches indeed on the miraculous. It is the four children of this miracle that André Bleikasten re-examines and re-evaluates in his substantial new book on Faulkner. But rather than approach Faulkner's fiction from a priori theoretical assumptions and process it through some prefabricated grid, he has concentrated on the text themselves: on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, on their various narrative protocols and the endless interplay of their tropes and codes, on their points of emphasis and repetition as well as their rifts and gaps.

Brilliant in its thought and argument, drawing eclectically on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and other disciplines, and using modern critical theory without ever being arcane or trendy, Bleikasten's book is a highly personal performance and one of the most insightful and stimulating studies that Faulkner has received.

About the Author: Andre Bleikasten (1933-2009) was Professor of American Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, and a prominent Faulkner scholar. He is the author of William Faulkner: A Life through Novels. He is also known for his studies of Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.

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Title: The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels ...
Publisher: Indiana Univeristy Press
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edtion.