The Ballad of the Sad Café (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Carson McCullers
- First Published: 1943
- Genres: Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Work
The Ballad of the Sad Café depicts a triangular romance similar to the complicated relationship involving Carson McCullers and Reeves McCullers, David Diamond, and Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach. Diamond loved Carson and Reeves; Reeves loved Carson and Diamond; and Carson loved Diamond and Annemarie and felt ambivalent toward Reeves, whom she was divorcing. In the novel Miss Amelia Evans owns a café in a Southern mill town. When Cousin Lymon, a dwarf and hunchback, appears and claims kinship with her, she invites him to live with her. She falls in love with...
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