It’s a dense read and if you don’t pay enough attention and try to delve deep into this book you will struggle to enjoy it. This book is best known for its stream of consciousness writing technique which can be one of the biggest struggles with this book. As the book continues you can see the characters develop with each narrator’s perceptions and opinions. Faulkner shifts between the fifteen narrators throughout book, one of them is even the deceased, who is expressing her thoughts from the coffin. This book follows the journey of fifteen different characters as they set out to fulfil the wishes of the recently deceased Addie Bundren who is to be buried in Jefferson. I am pleased to have this recording in my permanent library.Īs I Lay Dying is a classic American novel that was written by William Faulkner. All in all, this was an excellent rendition of Faulkner's novel. This did not take away from the story as a whole, but I did need to clarify this for the academic purposes of my peer.

A few artistic interpretations of the stream of consciousness sections were distracting, as the readers chose to add punctuation rather than flow rapidly from one thought to the next without breaks. We thoroughly approved of the readers' Southern accents and (being from the South)found very few flaws in that regard. Together, we found the use of multiple readers helped distinguish the different narrators of this work. I used this recording to assist a blind peer who was studying the novel, and I read my copy along with the recorded reading to help establish and clarify the characters' points of view, especially with regards to the sections involving stream of consciousness. As a Faulknerian scholar, I was pleasantly surprised by this audio rendition of one of Faulkner's complex works.

Faulkner as dying