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

Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkners work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkners 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 Faulkners work.