As I Lay Dying Book Review
Narrated in turn by each of the family members including addie herself as well as others.
As i lay dying book review. The title derives from book xi of homer s odyssey william marris s 1925 translation wherein agamemnon tells odysseus. Published 10 00 pm pdt friday july 26 2013 faulkner wrote as i lay dying in six weeks while working nights. Friends and family members gather to help ease her pain and to prepare for her funeral. As i lay dying hinges on the bundren family s long journey to bury their matriarch as her body decomposes in its coffin.
As i lay dying the woman with the dog s eyes would not close my eyes as i descended into hades the novel utilizes stream of consciousness writing technique multiple narrators and varying chapter lengths. Crayola suggested in his guide that as i lay dying is a dark comedy but i hardly found that to be the case. 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. To end here are some more quotes from the text.
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. The novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. I actually found it somewhat depressing so beware. Book reviews as i lay dying uses thirteen narrators to explore the many voices found in a southern family and community.
In this particular novel addie bundren the wife and mother to a poor white farm family is on her deathbed. He draws on a lifetime of being a parish priest and a student of literature and theology. 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. As i lay dying by william faulkner.
Lucy and sam do much the same as their father literally falls to pieces. We might be tempted considering as i lay dying his novel of 1930 about a southern family of poor whites narrated by its members and their neighbors its events refracted through multiple points of view that faulkner was referring to hemingway s reliance on standard fictional conventions the simple declarative sentence the single narrative voice and a linear sense of time.