As I Lay Dying Book Cover

He published his first book the marble faun in 1924 but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the deep south particularly in the fictional yoknapatawpha county the setting for several of his novels that he is most highly regarded.

As i lay dying book cover. The title derives from book xi of homer s odyssey william marris s 1925 translation wherein agamemnon tells odysseus. As i lay dying for me felt more accessible. About as i lay dying. Narrated in turn by each of the family members including addie herself as well as others the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.

The narrative told from each character s perspective yet often about the same event left the reader to interpret the underlying motive or conflict of feelings within the bundren family. As i lay dying is a 1930 southern gothic novel by american author william faulkner faulkner s fifth novel it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th century literature. Enjoyed as i lay dying more than my first taste of a faulkner novel which was the sound and the fury. As i lay dying is faulkner s harrowing account of the bundren family s odyssey across the mississippi countryside to bury addie their wife and mother.

Selected by the modern library as one of the 100 best novels of all time from the modern library s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by william faulkner also available are snopes the sound and the fury light in august absalom absalom and selected short stories one of william faulkner s finest novels as i lay dying originally published in.