If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.' - Eudora WeltyĪbout the Author William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.' - Ralph Ellison 'No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. 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.' -William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

'I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. 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. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. About the Book As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members-including Addie herself.Ī true 20th-century classic: Faulkner's famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.

Faulkner as dying