As I lay dying : the corrected text /
William Faulkner ; introduction by E.L. Doctorow.
- 2012 Modern Library edition.
- 267 pages ; 21 cm
"As I Lay Dying" follows the Bundren family on a harrowing and darkly comic journey across the Mississippi countryside to bury their matriarch, Addie, in her hometown of Jefferson. Told through a shifting kaleidoscopic lens of 15 different narrators and utilizing a stream-of-consciousness style, the novel explores the internal struggles, secret motivations, and varying levels of grief within the family. As they battle fire, flood, and their own physical and mental decline, the odyssey transforms into a visceral meditation on the nature of existence, the subjectivity of truth, and the complex, often fractured bonds of kinship.