No. 30 · The Well-Read 30As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner1930
Fiction · 1930
As I Lay Dying
Fifteen narrators carry Addie Bundren's body toward burial, each revealing a different version of the family and the journey.
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Its shifting voices make a difficult modernist technique surprisingly concrete: no one person owns the whole truth.
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- family
- grief
- voice
- obligation
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