As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner’s fifth novel, on which he began to work at the end of October 1929, just a few weeks after the publication of The Sound and the Fury . At that time Faulkner had taken a job at the University of Mississippi power plant and wrote the novel during his night shifts there, over a period of only forty-seven days. Though not initially a bestseller, the book was well received by critics. It has since come to be viewed as a cornerstone of both his oeuvre and American modernism, and is consistently listed as one of the best novels of the 20th century. According to th