O'Connor, Flannery (Vol. 1) - O'Connor, Flannery 1925–1964
O'Connor, Flannery 1925–1964
A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O'Connor is the author of The Violent Bear It Away and Everything That Rises Must Converge. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
With the publication … of her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O'Connor sums up her earlier work and challenges comparison with the greatest in her exploration of the consequences of man's refusal to see things as they really are and act accordingly….
All of the South, as every average reader knows, is like Gaul, divided into three parts: the Magnolia South of the Civil War, costume romance; the Bayou South of decadent honor and Krafft-Ebing sin; and that last great battle ground of cultural conflict, Yoknapatawpha County. Miss O'Connor's South cannot be located anywhere on this distorted literary map, but it does seem typical of large sections of real-life Georgia...
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