William Faulkner diagnosed modern ills in As I Lay Dying
- Written by: Sarah Gleeson-White, Associate Professor in American Literature, University of Sydney
William Faulkner's novel depicts a poor rural family from Mississippi struggling to find their place in the modernising society of the 1930s.US Library of Congress
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To hear William Faulkner tell it, to write As I Lay Dying he “took this family and subjected them to...
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