著者

衣川 清子

出版者

埼玉女子短期大学

雑誌

埼玉女子短期大学研究紀要 = Bulletin of Saitama Women's Junior College (ISSN:09157484)

巻号頁・発行日

no.4, pp.199-211, 1993-03

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Lie Down in Darkness (1951), William Styron's first novel, is about a young girl from Virginia, who suffers familial conflicts and kills herself in New York. Some critics call it a Faulknerian or a Southern novel, but it is actually about an ordinary girl who wants desperately to be understood, and Styron wrote it in the awareness of "the mid-century in the never-endingness of war," which indicates it is modern rather than simply Southern.