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

by André Bleikasten

Book Overview

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 Andr Bleikasten re-examines and re-evaluates in his substantial new book on Faulkner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253312000
• ISBN13: 9780253312006
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"