As I Lay Dying

“As I Lay Dying” is a 1930 novel by William Faulkner. The novel was one of the first of its kind to utilize the narration of multiple point-of-view characters. Each of the 59 chapters is told through the eyes of a character and named after them. Faulkner claimed to have written the book over the course of six weeks, working from midnight to 4 a.m while employed at a power plant. He also claimed that he did not edit a word of it and that it was a “tour de force”. It is his fifth novel.