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Books like as i lay dying5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is particularly significant about this is that through the use of the interior monologue (sort of like stream of consciousness) Faulkner further challenges the boundaries of narrative possibility. The Bundren’s journey to Jefferson is conveyed to us through multiple perspectives: from the point of view of each of the Bundrens, their neighbours and members of the surrounding communities with no transitional or explanatory segments, which are conventionally provided by an omniscient narrator. ![]() It focuses on the death and burial of Addie Bundren as told by members of her family (her husband and children) as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi to bury her among her people. I am not very keen on patronising readers with plot summaries and this would be no exception were it not for the fact that this novel’s plot is comically straightforward. (I am cursing that I do not live in New York because James Franco-*swoons, suppresses inner fangirl*-has directed and starred in a film adaptation of the novel which is being screened there as I type.) Specifically, I quite like As I Lay Dying, first published in 1930. Okay, so I once tweeted that any Faulkner novel was most certainly pretentious artwank at its finest but, in fact, I secretly quite like Faulkner’s novels. ![]()
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