At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkablebooks. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
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我们的生命怎么就悄然化为一些无风、无声、疲惫地重复着的疲惫的姿态:化为没有手在没有弦上拨动的古老的振响的回声:夕阳西下时我们凝成了狂妄的姿态,玩偶们僵死的姿态。
路躺在那,一直通到我家门口,大大小小的厄运但凡经过都不会找不到门的。
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