Cycnos | Volume 34.2 - " The wagon moves" : new essays on William Faulkner's As I lay dying | III. Time and Space

Raveling / Unraveling the Fading World of As I Lay Dying

Abstract :

International audience

In Faulkner's nove!, all the Bundrens express in their own way the terrified awareness of the fading quality of their world ( and of the words to say it) as Addie herself is fading. But by fulfilling Anse's absurd promise to bury his wife in Jefferson, they leam to negotiate with the forces of dissolution and discover their resilience.

Keywords : Anse Bundren, The Odyssey, fading, dissolution, mergings

Published : 2018-05

Document Type : Journal articles

Affiliation : Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines (CHCSC) ; Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Saclay

Source : halshs-01966187

Citation

Jacques Pothier, « Raveling / Unraveling the Fading World of As I Lay Dying », Cycnos, 2018-05. URL : https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01966187