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As I Lay Dying is a novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner said that he wrote the novel in six weeks and that he did not change a word of it.[1] Faulkner wrote it while working at a power plant, published it in 1930, and described it as a "tour de force". Faulkner's seventh novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th century literature.[2][3][4][5] The title derives from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades."
The novel utilizes stream of consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths.
