Hunting the Sun

Merrill Horton

ISBN 10: 1433110032 / ISBN 13: 9781433110030

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2010, 2010

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Neuware -Hunting the Sun upends all previous Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honoré de Balzac virtually everything in William Faulkner¿s ¿uvre. Faulkner¿s work departs, often confusingly, from the traditional Romantic focus of novels. The reason for the confusion is that Faulkner was rewriting Balzac¿s La Comedie humaine, itself a prose revision of Dante¿s Divine Comedy, in order to create his own comedy. More specifically, Faulkner abandons the metaphysical basis of the earlier works and replaces them with a psychosexual one; for example, Balzac¿s «The Succubus» becomes Faulkner¿s «Carcassonne», which the American renders an erotic fantasy. Virtually all of Faulkner¿s major works, and many of the lesser ones, have direct sources in Balzac¿s work.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 290 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hunting the Sun
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433110032
• ISBN 13: 9781433110030
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 155H x 20D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 559 grams

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Synopsis

Hunting the Sun upends all previous Faulkner biography, scholarship, and criticism by tracing to Honoré de Balzac virtually everything in William Faulkner’s œuvre. Faulkner’s work departs, often confusingly, from the traditional Romantic focus of novels. The reason for the confusion is that Faulkner was rewriting Balzac’s La Comedie humaine, itself a prose revision of Dante’s Divine Comedy, in order to create his own comedy. More specifically, Faulkner abandons the metaphysical basis of the earlier works and replaces them with a psychosexual one; for example, Balzac’s «The Succubus» becomes Faulkner’s «Carcassonne», which the American renders an erotic fantasy. Virtually all of Faulkner’s major works, and many of the lesser ones, have direct sources in Balzac’s work.

About the Author

Merrill Horton received his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of South Carolina, where he taught from 2002 to 2008.