![]() Since then, this classic American tale has gone on to directly influence a number of other critically-celebrated works, including Graham Swift’s Last Orders and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Getting Mother’s Body: a Novel. The story is told, in turn, by each of the family members- including Addie herself the often soulful narratives in the novel shift at times from dark comedy to deepest tragedy.įaulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for his novels prior to that date, among them As I Lay Dying. The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, when Agamemnon says to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”Īs I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s disturbing account of the Bundren family’s journey to bury Addie, their wife and mother in Jefferson, Mississippi, as she requested. ![]() ![]() ![]() As I Lay Dying, by American author William Faulkner, was published in 1930. ![]()
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