As I lay dying

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William Faulkner: As I lay dying (1930, J. Cape, H. Smith)

254 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 1930 by J. Cape, H. Smith.

OCLC Number:
2790338

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4 stars (1 review)

Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose.

28 editions

reviewed Mentre Morivo by William Faulkner (Gli Adelphi, #312)

Un'epica di contadini statunitensi del secolo scorso

4 stars

Una vera e propria odissea su questa famiglia che vuole seppellire la madre nella città natale, ad ogni costo. Ogni personaggio, anche secondario, ci parla nei vari capitoli con la propria voce inconfondibile.

Diversi drammi personali che si nascondo sotto al dramma pubblico del lutto.

Subjects

  • Parent and adult child -- Fiction
  • Problem families -- Fiction
  • Married women -- Fiction
  • Death -- Fiction
  • Mississippi -- Fiction