![]() ![]() The novel's representation of their physical and psychological struggles during their journey with the mother's body through flood and fire is more often either comic or grotesque, though there are also moments of great pathos. The Bundrens, on the other hand, are dirt-poor farmers who live beyond Frenchman's Bend, in the far south-eastern part of the county. The Compsons in The Sound and the Fury, like the Sartorises and Benbows in Flags in the Dust, belong to Yoknapatawpha's aristocracy, and Faulkner treats their dispossession by the forces of modernity in often tragic tones. Like the second one, it is very much about family - but a very different class of family. As I Lay Dying, Faulkner's third Yoknapatawpha novel, was published on October 6, 1930. ![]()
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