by William Faulkner · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437608341
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«Mientras agonizo» is the novel by William Faulkner, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Bundren family, poor farmers from the American South, as the matriarch, Addie, lies dying. When Addie dies, the clan undertakes a painful journey to bury her in Jefferson, with the coffin that the carpenter son has built. The odyssey lays bare tensions and miseries in a portrait of the decline of the traditional South.
It was originally published in 1930 as “As I Lay Dying”. It is number 110 in the Letras Universales collection, edited by Javier Coy.
For readers of classic and literary fiction, literature students, and those interested in the narrative of William Faulkner.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
