William Faulkner's Book "As I Lay Dying”

Introduction

"As I Lay Dying" was recognized as one of the greatest novels of Faulkner, as well as the self-proclaimed "Tour de force" Faulkner himself. As the novel before it, he told in a stream of conscious fashion for fifteen different speakers about 59 chapters. In his search for the image Bundren family to Jefferson to bury their dead matriarch, Eddie, among his "people" against the threat of floods and fires, the novel explores the nature of grieving, the community and family.

Discussion

The structure of this novel is its most remarkable quality. As I Lay Dying is one of the best novels of the 20th century, rich in feeling, in a remarkable performance. Although, little commercial success at the time of its publication, As I Lay Dying has become one of the most popular novels of William Faulkner. The first postponed its controversial theme and intricate style, commentators and readers have come to realize vivid characters of the novel, elusive tone, and the narrative of a complex technology. Extensive Faulkner's work takes place almost entirely within his fictional Yoknapatawpha County setting, the South Peace, in which the characters intertwine freely and human nature is considered in a realistic place. This link with the South gives the novel As I Lay Dying. As I Lay Dying were overlays on the back of a wooden wheelbarrow before its publication while Faulkner worked on the electric company shoveling coal. As I Lay Dying kind not only as a voyeuristic eyes in the rural slums of Mississippi, as well as the pastoral novel and persistent examination of humanity under duress. Despite mixed reactions from critics and readers, a powerful novel Faulkner delivers some universal message, including the fact that a person's ability to spend on it is always a wonderful thing, and nowhere more so than when it springs from unlikely soil. Because Faulkner's ability to express these themes in the novel methods, As I Lay Dying welcomed as one of the classics of American literature. The book also takes place in the 1920's so that they all should get her a carriage and horses, which makes the trip even more difficult. Instead of one set of the narrator, the author chose to everyone in the family and all the people with whom they face tell a story through their feelings and how they experience the events that occur. As I Lay Dying was published in 1930, immediately after work, which many consider a masterpiece of Faulkner. N 1929 William Faulkner set out to write a novel that would showcase his skills as an author. Tour-de-force of the novel, which followed a little less than 6 weeks, occupies an important place in American literature. With the help of an experimental narrative style combined with thematic issues of family relations, As I Lay Dying has become one of the most important novels of Faulkner. His writer opportunities as and thought-provoking theme of human existence and place in the family of William Faulkner ...