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Table of ContentsForeword / 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
