★★★★★ Stefano Valente 12.06.2024 amazon.de

I read it several years ago. At that time, I approached it after having already read "The Sound and the Fury", "Sanctuary" and "The Unvanquished". Therefore I knew what I was choosing ... definitely not an easy and relaxing book ...Jointly with "The Sound and the Fury", "Light in August" and "Absalom, Absalom!", "As I Lay Dying" is commonly regarded as one of the pillars of his literary output.To sum it up is, in my opinion, impossible.From my standpoint, it is a book which transcends time, as the author himself wanted his works to be remembered, since (to cite the Paris review) "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."This "motion" is the journey towards Jefferson to bury Addie (still living at the beginning), a journey through ups and downs of the Bundren family, through life and death, through faith and uncertainty, through trust and betrayal, through hope and despair, through love and loss.Definitely one of the best book I had the chance to read