As I Lay Dying is a novel written by William Faulkner. Released in 1930, it tells of a family travelling to bury one of their member.
Characters[]
- Addie Bundren - the deceased patriarch of the Bundrens and the narrator of the novel
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Publisher's summary[]
A true 20th-century Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. 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.
“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” ―William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Another Modernist novel based on the Odyssey |
| The Fall | Albert Camus | 1956 | Another notable novel set in the present tense |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | Another novel by the same author with similar themes |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Another Modernist novel with a similar plot and similar themes |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | 1960 | Another notable novel set in the present tense |
| Child of God | Cormac McCarthy | 1973 | Another novel with similar themes |