A Faulkner Chronology - Softcover

Gresset, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878052291 ISBN 13: 9780878052295

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1985

Synopsis

This richly detailed outline of William Faulkner's life is written by an eminent French scholar who brings new insights to the Nobel Laureate's career and writings.

This book is intended to be a quick reference guide to Faulkner's works as they relate to his life. Principally an outline of a literary career, it will serve as a useful aid for students beginning a study of Faulkner's novels. It gives emphasis year-by-year to the main events in his life and to his professional activity. For the major works, Gresset gives an account of the inception, composition, revisions, and publication. In addition, to summarize Faulkner's publications in a given year, Gresset provides a list of the fiction published during the period.

From the time of Faulkner's death in 1962 through 1984, the chronology provides a publishing history of new original Faulkner material as well as information about important books and events that relate to Faulkner.

“The figure that looms behind this chronology,” Gresset says in his introduction, “is that of a hard-gutted and hard-fisted little man whose rather unhappy life may well have found only in literature . . . the deep satisfaction . . . that he never ceased to yearn after.”

About this title

About the Author

Michel Gresset (1936-2005), author of Faulkner ou la fascination, I: Poetique de regard, edited volume one of the Pleiade edition of Faulkner in France. He was also author of A Faulkner Chronology and coeditor (with Patrick H. Samway) of Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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A richly detailed outline of William Faulkner's life and career written by an eminent French scholar

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878052291
• ISBN 13: 9780878052295
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140