Ink of Melancholy

<p><i>Ink of Melancholy </i>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 <i>Ink of Melancholy</i> is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.</p>