Inheritance of Night - Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness

"It's fascinating for me to read, for the first time in over forty years, the stumbling starts toward the creation of "Lie Down in Darkness." These passages show how, in my early twenties, I may have been in possession of a luminous vision for a novel but how it was a luminosity clouded by much indecision and awkwardness. . . . "Inheritance of Night," then, is made up of fragments of a beginning, bits of fruitful inspiration mingled with conceits that were stillborn."--William Styron, from the Preface

Sommario

Preface / William Styron vii

Introduction / James L. W. West III xi

Prospectus (Winter 1947-48) 1

Typescript I: First Beginning (Winter 1947-48) 9

Typescript II: Second Beginning (Fall 1948) 67

Typescript III: Continuation of Second Beginning (Spring 1949) 115

Description of the Documents 138

Info autore

William Styron

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Styron, William Styron
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.03.1993
• EAN: 9780822313106
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1310-6
• Pagine: 158
• Peso: 726 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren