As I Lay Dying(unabridged) - Softcover

William Faulkner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7500144180 ISBN 13: 9787500144182

Publisher: China translation and publishing Corporation, 2016

Synopsis

Faulkner used to say this is his best fiction. Since its publishing, critics have been interpreting this fiction from different aspects. This book is deemed as one of Faulkner's works with highest literary achievements, a expression of his extraordinary stream of consciousness also an experimental work that brought him international fame. The real value of this works emphases at the reevaluation of human's endurance of suffering. With unique narrating method, Faulkner systemizes memorial pieces and rebuilds the broken world.

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Review:

Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see.

From the Inside Flap:

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

About this edition

• Publisher: China translation and publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 7500144180
• ISBN 13: 9787500144182
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 141