![]() ![]() This is focused reading, not a simple beach read that you half read while also talking to someone. A lot of times, I had to read passages several times to really realise what's going on. Faulkner alternates between 15 narrators, jumps between time and action and makes the reader do a lot of work. This book is the perfect example of why so many people dislike modernism - it's tough. (Hence the connection with Hemingway, since they worked in the same time period) He is mostly known for The Sound and the Fury, but I read As I Lay Dying, because I loved the cover and the summary interested me immediately.Īs I Lay Dying is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and how this influences her family, community, and bystanders who were strangers before in Southern America. ![]() In case you know as much about William Faulkner as I did, which is nothing, he is a Nobel prize winning author from Mississippi, who lived from 1897 until 1962. When I went to Boston, I decided to have a little break (just a tiny one, because I did spend an amazing day at the Hemingway archives, living my dream of being a real researcher who looks at super important, life changing documents) and focused on an author who always seems to be mentioned in the same breath as Ernest Hemingway, but isn't from the same group: William Faulkner. Every single day, my life becomes more and more about my thesis and the authors connected to it. ![]()
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