It presents the conscious, unconscious, and sometimes hallucinatory impressions of the husband, daughter, and four sons of Addie Bundren, the long-suffering matriarch of her rural Mississippi clan, as the family marches her body through fire and flood to its grave in town. The four novels in this Library of America collection display an astonishing range of characters and treatments in his Depression-era fiction.Īs I Lay Dying (1930) is a combination of comedy, horror, and compassion, a narrative woven from the inarticulate desires of a peasant family in conflict. Between 19, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century.
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