William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1930

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

As I Lay Dying (New York: Cape & Smith, 1930) is the fifth of William Faulkner’s nineteen novels, and the third of fourteen that he set in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, the Mississippi town and county he created in his fiction. The name of his apocryphal county first appeared in this novel. Faulkner claimed, with only slight exaggeration, that he wrote the book in six weeks without changing a word [“Introduction”, Sanctuary (Modern Library, 1932), vii]. In reality, the manuscript and typescript contain numerous revisions, though relatively minor and few compared to his previous novels, and it took him nearly seven weeks, not six, to draft it, from late October to mid-December, 1929, and approximately another …

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "As I Lay Dying". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6524, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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