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   Set in Yoknapatawpha County, As I Lay Dying is part of Faulkner's interconnected fictional saga based on Lafayette County, Mississippi.

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   Addie Bundren, the dead matriarch at the center of As I Lay Dying, delivers only one chapter of narration despite being the novel's central figure.

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   Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in just six weeks during 1929 while working the night shift at a power plant in Oxford, Mississippi.

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   The novel's stream-of-consciousness narrative is structured around the ten-day journey of the Bundren family transporting their mother Addie's corpse to Jefferson, Mississippi.

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   William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying contains 59 chapters narrated by 15 different characters across just 273 pages.

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