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Inheritance of night : early drafts of Lie down in darkness
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Inheritance of night : early drafts of Lie down in darkness

Auteur : William Styron
Éditeur : Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Édition/format : Livre : Fiction : Anglais
Résumé :
From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title Inheritance of Night. On the third attempt he produced the award-winning Lie Down in Darkness, which when published in September 1951 established him as one of the most promising writers of his generation. Published here, in facsimile form, are the long-lost drafts of Styron's earliest version of Lie Down in Darkness. Although  Lire la suite...
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Personne nommée : William Styron
Type d’ouvrage : Fiction
Type de document : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : William Styron
ISBN : 0822313081 9780822313083 082231309X 9780822313090 0822313103 9780822313106 0822313073 9780822313076
Numéro OCLC : 26363557
Notes : Facsimile of typescripts with author's emendations.
Description : xix, 139 p. ; 26 cm.
Responsabilité : William Styron ; with a preface by the author and an introduction by James L. W. West III.

Résumé :

From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title Inheritance of Night. On the third attempt he produced the award-winning Lie Down in Darkness, which when published in September 1951 established him as one of the most promising writers of his generation. Published here, in facsimile form, are the long-lost drafts of Styron's earliest version of Lie Down in Darkness. Although Styron began the narrative twice, he realized both times that his writing was derivative and his characters not yet fully conceived. These drafts show young Styron feeling his way into the story with various narrative voices and strategies, attempting to work out his plot. Influences from William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Robert Penn Warren are apparent in the text, and there is a character named Marcus Bonner who is an early rendition of Stingo in Sophie's Choice. The typescript drafts of Inheritance of Night for many years were thought to have been lost, but in 1980 were discovered in the files of one of Styron's former literary agents. These drafts eventually made their way to the archive of Styron's papers assembled at Duke University Library. This general interest trade volume is also available in two different limited editions for collectors: a lettered, signed, and boxed edition and a numbered, signed edition. With a preface by Styron and an introduction by James L. W. West III, these drafts afford much insight into the creation of Lie Down in Darkness and the writing of a major twentieth-century American writer.

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