As I Lay Dying在我弥留之际
一个关于堂吉诃德式的理想主义和生死思辨的故事
基本信息
作者/Author：William Faulkner
平装/Paperback: 256 pages
出版社/Publisher: Vintage Classics ; New Ed edition ( 1996-1-4 )
语言/Language: English
商品编号/ISBN-13: 9780099582748
商品规格/Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
编辑推选
1.福克纳是20世纪美国真正意义上的现代主义作家，与欧洲文学试验者乔伊斯、伍尔芙、普鲁斯特等人遥相呼应，大量运用意识流、多角度叙述和陈述中时间推移等富有创新性的文学手法，极大地影响了20世纪之后的世界文坛，克洛德西蒙、加缪、萨特、略萨、马尔克斯、莫言等多位诺贝尔文学奖获得者将其视为自己的文学导师。
2.《我弥留之际》是一部囊括了诸多现代写作手法的"技术壮举"。如内心独白、多角度叙述和意识流手法等等，这些创作方法奠定了福克纳作为一个现代派文学大师的地位。
3.福克纳称《我弥留之际》是自己的“杰作”，这部小说有着一切伟大小说的基本元素:如何面对生存和死亡、大自然和人的关系、人性的善和恶、人如何面对上帝、人的家庭内部和外部的关系等等。
书籍简介
《我弥留之际》是一部非常经典的作品，故事情节极具独特，一群活着的人为死者送葬，其间发生了很多事情，其中每个人的性格和心态合起来就构成了一幅人类和命运搏斗的史诗画卷。
福克纳把这次出殡作为一个堂吉诃德式的理想主义行为来歌颂。尽管有种种愚蠢、自私、野蛮的表现，这一家人还是为了信守诺言，尊重亲人感情，克服了巨大的困难与阻碍，完成了他们的一项使命。福克纳自己说:"《我弥留之际》一书中的本德仑一家，也是和自己的命运极力搏斗的"。可以认为，《我弥留之际》是写一群人的一次"奥德赛"，一群有着各种精神创伤的普通人的一次充满痛苦与磨难的"奥德赛"。从人类总的状况来看，人类仍然是在盲目、无知的状态之中摸索着走向进步与光明。每走一步，他们都要犯下一些错误，付出沉重的代价。就这个意义说，本德仑一家不失为人类社会的一个缩影。他们在一定意义上，是全人类的象征，他们的弱点和缺点是普通人身上所存在的弱点和缺点，他们的状态也是全人类的普遍状态。
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
Review
"A masterpiece of dark humour" (Daily Express)
"The greatest American writers of the last century were William Faulkner and Saul Bellow...As I Lay Dying and The Adventures of Augie March: it's hard to think of two better novels written in this country in any century" (Philip Roth Observer)
"One of America's greatest writers" (The Times)
"A beautiful novel" (Independent)
"By universal consent of critics and common readers, Faulkner is now recognised as the strongest American novelist of the century, clearly surpassing (Ernest) Hemingway and (Scott) Fitzgerald, and standing as an equal in the sequence that includes Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James . . . As I Lay Dying may be the most original novel ever written by an American" (Harold Bloom)
Book Des cription
'Brilliant and compelling - one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator
From the Inside Flap
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
From the Back Cover
'Brilliant and compelling...one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
See also: Light in August
作者简介
威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner 1897年9月25日－1962年7月6日），美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一，意识流文学在美国的代表人物，1949年诺贝尔文学奖得主，获奖原因为“因为他对当代美国小说做出了强有力的和艺术上无与伦比的贡献”。
他一生共写了19部长篇小说与120多篇短篇小说，其中15部长篇与绝大多数短篇的故事都发生在约克纳帕塔法县，称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。其主要脉络是这个县杰弗生镇及其郊区的属于不同社会阶层的若干个家族的几代人的故事，时间从1800年起直到第二次世界大战以后。世系中共600多个有名有姓的人物在各个长篇、短篇小说中穿插交替出现。最有代表性的作品是《喧哗与骚动》
Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film s cripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962.
