As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner · 1930 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Modernist

Addie Bundren dies while her eldest son planes her coffin under the window, and the family sets out to bury her forty miles away in Jefferson. Flood, fire and their own private errands stretch the journey out for days. A grotesque odyssey in fifteen voices.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ The Odyssey
  Homer · c. 725 BCE · Poem
• ↓ Wise Blood
  Flannery O'Connor · 1952 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Love Medicine
  Louise Erdrich · 1984 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Leaf Storm
  Gabriel García Márquez · 1955 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ The Time of the Hero
  Mario Vargas Llosa · 1963 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ The Death of Artemio Cruz
  Carlos Fuentes · 1962 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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