André Bleikasten (1933-2009) was Professor of American Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, and a prominent Faulkner scholar. He is the author of William Faulkner: A Life through Novels. He is also known for his studies of Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.

Unsurpassed as an act of sustained engagement with Faulkner's language.(New York Review of Books) Faulkner has found a critic worthy of him.(Times Literary Supplement)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsEditions Cited and AbbreviatedIntroduction:Masks and MirrorsPart 1: The Struggle with the Angel1. The Quest for Eurydice 2. The Agony of Dispossession3. The Young Man, Desire, and Death4. Of Time and the Unreal5. The Poison of Resentment6. An Easter without Resurrection?Part 2: Requiem for a Mother7. A "Tour de Force"8. A Dying Life, A Living Death9. Turns of Madness10. The Real and Its RepresentationsPart 3: The Blackness of Darkness11. "The Most Horrific Tale"12. Terror and Transgression13. The Madness of Bodies14. The Infernal NurseryPart 4: Versions of the Sun15. In Praise of Helen16. The Cracked Urns17. The Perils of Purity18. The Fathers19 CirclesEpilogue: Under the Sign of SaturnNotesIndex

André Bleikasten (1933-2009) was Professor of American Literature at the University of Strasbourg, France, and a prominent Faulkner scholar. He is the author of William Faulkner: A Life through Novels. He is also known for his studies of Philip Roth, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.

Unsurpassed as an act of sustained engagement with Faulkner's language.(New York Review of Books) Faulkner has found a critic worthy of him.(Times Literary Supplement)

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsEditions Cited and AbbreviatedIntroduction:Masks and MirrorsPart 1: The Struggle with the Angel1. The Quest for Eurydice 2. The Agony of Dispossession3. The Young Man, Desire, and Death4. Of Time and the Unreal5. The Poison of Resentment6. An Easter without Resurrection?Part 2: Requiem for a Mother7. A "Tour de Force"8. A Dying Life, A Living Death9. Turns of Madness10. The Real and Its RepresentationsPart 3: The Blackness of Darkness11. "The Most Horrific Tale"12. Terror and Transgression13. The Madness of Bodies14. The Infernal NurseryPart 4: Versions of the Sun15. In Praise of Helen16. The Cracked Urns17. The Perils of Purity18. The Fathers19 CirclesEpilogue: Under the Sign of SaturnNotesIndex