导论威廉-福克纳(William Faulkner)是战后美国最杰出的一位南方作家,也是世界文学史上最重要的意识流小说家之一,代表作有《喧嚣与骚动》及《我弥留之际》,《我弥留之际》写的是发生在十天之内的事,艾迪·本德仑躺在病榻上。这个小学教员出身的农妇在受了几十年的熬煎后,终将撒手归天。窗外是晦暗的黄昏,大儿子卡什在给她赶制棺材。艾迪曾取得丈夫的口头保证,在她死后,遗体一定要运到她娘家人的墓地去安葬。在三天的准备、等待与大殓之后,到四十英里外的杰弗生去的一次“苦难的历程”开始了,一路上,经过了种种磨难,大水差点冲走了棺 Introduction William Faulkner is one of the most prominent Southern writers in the post-war America and one of the most important stream-of-consciousness novelters in the history of world literature. His masterpieces include “Hustle and Misturbance” and “When I Died” , “The occasion of my dying” is written in ten days, Eddy Bendon lying on his sick bed. The peasant woman, who came from a primary school teacher, will eventually give up her hand after having been decadent for decades. Out the window is the dusk of the evening, the eldest son Cash in her coffin rushed. Eddie made oral assurances from her husband. After she died, the bodies must be transported to her mother’s grave for burial. After three days of preparation and waiting, the “journey to misery” to Jeffrey, forty miles away, began. After all the hardships, the flood washed away the coffin