![]() ![]() Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. “He is the greatest artist the South has produced. 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.” “I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. ![]() Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. 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. Genre: Book2Screen, Classics, Essential Reading, Literary FictionĪs 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. ![]()
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