I don't mind working at a book if it's hard-going, but this style of narration makes it difficult for me, personally, to ever settle into the rhythm of the book.
The first problem is my lack of enthusiasm for stream of consciousness narratives. I think, deep down, I always sensed Faulkner just wasn't for me. But when I've felt in the mood for a classic or something "literary", I've always passed him up for other authors, even those with 1000+ page monsters. His books always appear on lists of "best books of all time" and "books you should read before you die". Paperback (Chinese) (February 29th, 2020): $43.I've been working up to a William Faulkner book for years."For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, are without equal in our time and country." Doctorow, this edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk. Told through multiple voices, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner’s imaginary South, one of literature’s great invented landscapes, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeįrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner-also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories
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