William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962. Literary Period: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a representative work of literary modernism, a movement which established itself in the early 20th century. It is consistently referred to as one of the greatest books of the. During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. As I Lay Dying, published in 1930, is a Southern Gothic, Modernist novel by William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). As I Lay Dying is Faulkners harrowing account of the Bundren familys odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Fue escrita por William Faulkner, uno de los novelistas más reconocidos de la literatura estadounidense del siglo XX. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Mientras agonizo (idioma original: As I Lay Dying) es una novela publicada en 1930. It is through the narratives of the other characters that her personality is revealed. The book is written in first person point of view and is narrated by family members and acquaintances of Addie. Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. William Faulkners novel 'As I Lay Dying' centers on the death and ensuing burial of the matriarch of the Bundren family, Addie.

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