I really like Faulkner. We studied "As I Lay Dying" at uni many moons ago. I was just reading about it and apparently he wrote it from 12 am to 4 am and didn't change a word. How cool is that. It's meant to be one of the great books of the 20th century - i should go re-read it. I've not read the Sound and The Fury though I've heard of it - I always presumed the title was from Shakespeare: 'life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing' - it too is in stream of consciousness isn't it, like As I Lay Dying.
I just read, of 'As I Lay Dying', that:
The title derives from Book XI of Homer's Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon tells Odysseus: "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades."
- like you and Faulkner, referencing the Greeks. And I'm reading 'Ransom' at the moment, as you may have seen with my post - a retelling of a part of the Iliad. I love how everything is connected. x
I'm off on holiday but I might download this onto my kindle and give it a read. Thanks for reminding me that it's on my to read list. x
RE: William Faulkner from The Sound and the Fury