Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215) and index. Includes index.
Contents:
Passion and compassion; absence and desire -- Lawrence: passion and its dissolution -- Joyce: the lineaments of desire -- Bitter-sweet: Hemingway and Barnes -- Faulkner I: the family void -- Faulkner II: colours of absence; ubiquity of desire -- Faulkner III: abstraction -- Lowry: the day of the dead -- Completion: Wright and Ellison -- False composure: Durrell and Fowles, Bellow and Styron.
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