Acknowledgments

A number of passages of fiction have like old memories interrupted my train of thought throughout the book. Those responsible for these intrusions are as follows. In chapter I: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1931; I am grateful to the Trustees of the Estate of William Faulkner and to Random House for their generous permission to reprint these passages. In chapter 2: James Joyce, Ulysses, first published in 1922; copyright renewed © 1984 and 1986; my thanks to the Trustees of the Joyce Estate and to Random House for their generous permission to reprint passages from Ulysses; one or two intrusions from Emerson’s Journals have also occurred in chapter 2, as has a quotation from William Faulkner, Light in August, first published in 1932; again, thanks to the Trustees of the Faulkner Estate and to Random House for their generous permission to reprint. In chapter 3: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, first published in 1939; copyright © 1939 by James Joyce; copyright renewed © 1967 by the Estate of James Joyce. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA and by the Society of Authors, London. In chapter 4: Herman Melville, Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, first published in 1852. In chapter 5: Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” first published in 1838, 1839, and 1843, respectively; along with two further intrusions by Pierre. In chapter 6: William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, reprinted with permission. Finally, in chapter 7: Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Book II, Part III, first published in 1933 (translations my own).

I am grateful to Olive Lambert and Barbara Crawshaw for their generous and expert help in preparing the typescript and to John Sallis, Charles Scott, Jill Lavelle, Michael Hudac, and Marta Salome for reading it.