『死の床に横たわりて』
『死の床に横たわりて』読了。
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 | ウィリアム フォークナー William Faulkner 佐伯 彰一 講談社 2000-12 売り上げランキング : 73,039 おすすめ平均  Amazonで詳しく見る by G-Tools |
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
「生きてるのは、つまりは、長いあいだじっと死んでいれるようにと準備する為じゃ」という父の言葉にとりつかれたアディは、夫に、自分の遺体を父の眠るジェファソンまで運んで埋めるように遺言を残して死ぬ。家族六人は洪水で橋が流失した川を棺桶と共に渡る。十五人の五十九回にわたる内的独白からなるこの小説は、南部の貧農一家を立体的に描き出す。
Amazon.com
Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see.
Book Description
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.
About the Author
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense. In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.
