Faulkner's Nobel Prize Collection: as I Lay Dying
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About This Novel
"As I Lay Dying" is one of Faulkner's classic works. The novel tells the story of farmer Ans, who, in accordance with his deceased wife's last wish, led his family to carry the coffin to his wife's family cemetery in Jefferson Town for burial. There were constant hardships along the way: the second son Dahl believed that the corpse was rotten and should be disposed of on the spot, so he set fire to the coffin and was treated as a lunatic and was sent to a lunatic asylum; the eldest son Cash broke a leg in order to save the coffin that fell into the water, and the increasingly heavy body odor attracted a large group of vultures. ; The third son Jewel lost his beloved horse; the daughter Del wanted to take the opportunity to go to the city to have an abortion, but was bullied by the clerk in the pharmacy; the mentally retarded younger son failed to get the toy train he longed for; only the father Ans got a pair of dentures and found a new wife. The literary world calls the novel "As I Lay Dying" the modern "Odyssey", which is an ironic epic and an absurd comedy.
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