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Informationen zum Autor André Bleikasten (1933-2009) was Professor of American Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France and a prominent Faulkner scholar, internationally acclaimed for his study of Faulkner's early works in The Ink of Melancholy. He is also known for his studies of Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor. Klappentext Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner expressed his wish to be known only through his books. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature several months later, and when he died famous in 1962, his biographers immediately began to unveil and dissect the unhappy life of "the little man from Mississippi." Despite the many works published about Faulkner, his life and career,it still remains a mystery how a poet of minor symbolist poems rooted in the history of the Deep South became one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Here, renowned critic André Bleikasten revisits Faulkner's biography through the author's literary imagination. Weaving together correspondence and archival research with the graceful literary analysis for which he is known, Bleikasten presents a multi-strand account of Faulkner's life in writing. By carefully keeping both the biographical and imaginative lives in hand, Bleikasten teases out threads that carry the reader through the major events in Faulkner's life, emphasizing those circumstances that mattered most to his writing: the weight of his multi-generational family history in the South; the formation of his oppositional temperament provoked by a resistance to Southern bourgeois propriety; his creative and sexual restlessness and uncertainty; his lifelong struggle with finances and alcohol; his paradoxical escape to the bondages of Hollywood; and his final bent toward self-destruction. This is the story of the man who wrote timeless works and lived in and through his novels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Philip Weinstein Testimony and Acknowledgements / Aimée Bleikasten Introduction / André Bleikasten List of Abbreviations 1. F(a)ulkner, Mississippi A little history, a little geography Three fathers, two mothers Childhood The attitudes of adolescence 2. Apprenticeships Pan and Pierrot: the first masks (Self)criticism In New Orleans The switch to prose 3. Birth of a Novelist The first novel: Soldiers' Pay An American in Paris Incomplete portrait of the artist as an artist: Elmer A diversion: Mosquitoes 4. The First Flowering The invention of Yoknapatawpha: Flags in the Dust The most splendid failure: The Sound and the Fury The most horrific story: Sanctuary Mourning becomes the Bundrens: As I Lay Dying Versions of the sun: Light in August 5. Mid-way Scenes from married life The Master of Rowan Oak The first shadows Back and forth to Hollywood Meta 6. From Pylon to Go Down, Moses The hell of fascination: Pylon The novel as research: Absalom, Absalom! Southern Tales: The Unvanquished Fault lines, flux and floods: If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem A comical pastoral: The Hamlet Legacies: Go Down, Moses 7. The Dark Years Under siege Hollywood, again Lucas' lesson: Intruder in the Dust A conventional detective story: Knight's Gambit Joan 8. Fame-At Last The Nobel Prize The public man Setbacks, distress and other miseries Requiem for a Nun: the education of Temple Drake The Gospel according to Faulkner: A Fable 9. The End The Virginia years The Snopes, second and final instalment: The Town and The Mansion The farewell smile: The Reivers The rider unseated Chronology Selected Bibliography Index of Names Index of Works ...
