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The Ink of Melancholy
Faulkner's Novels from the Sound and the Fury to Light in August
André Bleikasten (Author)
9780253022998
Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2016
416 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.535 kg
Unsurpassed as an act of sustained engagement with Faulkner's language. Faulkner has found a critic worthy of him.
Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves—on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps—while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.
Preface Part 1: The Struggle with the Angel Part 2: Requiem for a Mother Part 3: The Blackness of Darkness Part 4: Versions of the Sun Epilogue: Under the Sign of Saturn
Acknowledgements
Editions Cited and Abbreviated
Introduction:Masks and Mirrors
1. The Quest for Eurydice
2. The Agony of Dispossession
3. The Young Man, Desire, and Death
4. Of Time and the Unreal
5. The Poison of Resentment
6. An Easter without Resurrection?
7. A "Tour de Force"
8. A Dying Life, A Living Death
9. Turns of Madness
10. The Real and Its Representations
11. "The Most Horrific Tale"
12. Terror and Transgression
13. The Madness of Bodies
14. The Infernal Nursery
15. In Praise of Helen
16. The Cracked Urns
17. The Perils of Purity
18. The Fathers
19 Circles
Notes
Index