As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Editora: CLXBX

Sinopse

As I Lay Dying is William Faulkner's stark and devastating portrait of a family in motion and in collapse. Following the Bundrens as they transport their mother's corpse across the Mississippi countryside to fulfill her final wish, the novel unfolds through a fractured chorus of voices—each revealing private obsessions, resentments, and quiet desperation. 

Told in brief, unadorned monologues, Faulkner strips narrative to its bare essentials, exposing the raw mechanics of grief, duty, and endurance. The journey becomes both physical and moral, as necessity collides with pride, poverty, and the absurd weight of obligation. 

Unsparing and profoundly human, As I Lay Dying stands as one of the defining works of modern American literature—a study of death not as tragedy alone, but as a condition of ordinary life.

Disponível desde: 05/02/2026.

Comprimento de impressão: 187 páginas.

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