Raveling / Unraveling the Fading World of As I Lay Dying

Jacques Pothier (1, 2)

1 CHCSC - Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines
2 UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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.

Mots clés: Anse Bundren; The Odyssey; fading; dissolution; mergings

Domaines: Littératures

Jacques Pothier. Raveling / Unraveling the Fading World of As I Lay Dying. Cycnos, 2018, "The Wagon moves" : new essays on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, 34 (2), pp.189-202. ⟨halshs-01966187⟩