As I Lay Dying (1930)

"It is dark. I can hear wood, silence: I know them. But not living sounds, not even him. It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components—snuffings and stampings; smells of his colling flesh and ammoniac hair; an illusion of a coordinated whole of splotched hide and strong bones within which, detached and secret and familiar, an is different from my is. I see him dissolve—legs, a rolling eye, a gaudy splotching like cold flames—and float upon the dark in fading solution; all one yet neither; all either yet none. I can see hearing coil toward him, caressing, shaping his hard shape—fetlock, hip, shoulder and head; smell and sound. I am not afraid" (56-57). ( )

Per enterrar la seva dona i complir amb la seva voluntat Anse i els seus cinc fills es desplacen amb un carro i dues mules a Jeffersson passant tot tipus de facècies. Una descripció bestial d'aquest viatge ( )

meest meeslepende, maar toch de zwartste roman. Tragisch en filosofisch. ( )

Update: Upon re-read, this novel is so much better and so much more powerful than before. Faulkner definitely bears re-reading.

LOVE. I need to reread this, it's so powerful and so, so complicated. ( )

Update: Upon re-read, this novel is so much better and so much more powerful than before. Faulkner definitely bears re-reading.

LOVE. I need to reread this, it's so powerful and so, so complicated. ( )