As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Casa editrice: Passerino

Sinossi

As I Lay Dying is one of the most daring and original novels of twentieth-century American literature. In a series of fragmented interior monologues, William Faulkner tells the story of the Bundren family as they undertake a harrowing journey across the Mississippi countryside to bury their matriarch, Addie Bundren, according to her final wish.Told through the voices of fifteen different narrators, the novel lays bare the private thoughts, obsessions, and contradictions of each character. What emerges is a stark, often unsettling portrait of family bonds strained by poverty, pride, grief, and unspoken resentment. The journey becomes both a physical ordeal and a metaphysical descent into the nature of suffering, love, and identity. With its experimental structure, dark humor, and profound psychological insight, As I Lay Dying stands as a cornerstone of literary modernism. Faulkner’s spare yet poetic prose transforms an ordinary burial into an unforgettable exploration of the human condition—where duty, desire, and decay walk side by side. A timeless classic that challenges conventions and rewards careful readers, this novel remains as powerful and disturbing today as when it was first published.William Faulkner (1897–1962) was one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century. A central figure of literary modernism, he is best known for his experimental narrative techniques, complex characters, and vivid portrayals of the American South. His works explore memory, time, family, and moral decay through innovative uses of stream of consciousness and multiple perspectives. In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern novel.

Disponibile da: 08/01/2026.

Narrativa

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

Tender Betrayal

Rosanne Bittner

Stolen kisses and secret reunions lead to a passion that civil war cannot sever in this glorious historical romance from the bestselling author of Caress.   Beautiful, proud Audra Brennan feels like a stranger in a foreign land when she comes north from Louisiana to study music. But when she savors her first forbidden taste of desire in the arms of handsome lawyer Lee Jeffreys, his caresses spark a flame within her that burns away the differences between rebel and Yankee, all objections silenced by the fierce beating of two wild hearts falling impetuously, impossibly in love.   Suddenly cannon fire shatters the country. Principled, impassioned, and committed to a nation united, Lee answers the call to fight against the Confederacy, while Audra hurries home to a plantation shadowed by the darkening cloud of war. But in the most terrible of circumstances, can either afford to surrender their heart?   “Power, passion, tragedy and triumph are Rosanne Bittner’s hallmarks. Again and again, she brings readers to tears.” —RT Book Reviews

Mostra libro

Hogg

Samuel R. Delany

The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finn–like youngster caught in society’s most sinister seams—but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .Hogg is the story of a man—a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the people he works for call Hogg—and of the nameless boy who tells the story of three days of unspeakable sexual violence and devastation, which, together, they initiate in a small seaside American city in the middle of the last century. Hogg is a towering brute who makes his living as a rapist for hire. By the end of a series of vicious attacks, kidnappings, and mass murders, the reader will wonder who is more corrupt: the man or the boy.   Samuel R. Delany completed his first draft of Hogg within a day, if not within hours, of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City and revised it over the next four years, though it was not released until 1995.

Mostra libro