As I Lay Dying | Ideas For Group Discussions
Faulkner employs a challenging, experimental narrative style in As I Lay Dying, a portrait of a southern farming family.
1. In interviews, years after the publication of As I Lay Dying, Faulkner repeatedly talked about his novel as a tour de force that he wrote in six weeks without doing much revision. The novel, he has said, appeared whole in his mind; all he had to do was write it down. Manuscript study tends to discount the exaggerated nature of these claims, but certainly Faulkner wrote and revised the novel quickly. Does the art hold up in this novel, or has...
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