As I Lay Dying (1957)

A family’s journey to bury its mother gives the changing voices a shared task. The short sections name their speakers: keep returning to who is speaking and what that person wants from the journey. Faulkner’s language can be difficult, but grief, bodily discomfort and family friction make the experiment tangible. This is a more demanding step, with poverty, violence and grotesque comedy rather than a single stable narrator.