As I Lay Dying (The Collected works of William Faulkner)

by William Faulkner

Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members... (read more)

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  • Hillary H

    hillary h said:

    the story is actually narrated by 11 (i think) different narrators. Each chapter moves from one to another, with each of the children having several chapters. The mother herself has only one chapter but it is a very important and enlightening one.

    posted Wednesday, May 21 2008
  • nutmegballs

    nutmegballs said:

    Read this in college, like 12-13 years ago, and thought it was good. Someone was asking about the voice in the story. If I remember the story correctly, was it not the mom, as she lay dying? (or dead) I seem to remember a long drawn out discussion of this in one of my college lit classes.

    posted Wednesday, May 21 2008
  • Marita F

    marita f said:

    Finally read this one last summer --- prior to all the conversations about "multiple perspectives" in literature...

    posted Tuesday, May 20 2008
  • Ben

    ben said:

    I'm going to have to echo the 'difficult' comments. It isn't just the fractured narrative that makes the book more challenging than most, it's the (presumably accurate) Southern vernacular. I suspect it wouldn't have been easy for the average American reader to understand back in 1930, let alone a British reader nearly 80 years later. That said, it's a beautiful book and one of my favourites.

    posted Friday, April 25 2008
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    it has to be a tribute to all the high school English teachers, this is the highest ranked Faulkner on the classic lit tag!

    posted Friday, April 25 2008
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