Explanation: ‘As I Lay Dying’ (1930) is a celebrated novel by the American writer William Faulkner. He is a primary figure in Southern Gothic literature and is famous for using the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique—where the reader follows the internal thoughts of multiple characters. The novel follows the Bundren family’s difficult journey to bury their matriarch, Addie Bundren. Faulkner’s complex narrative style earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.