O'Connor, Flannery (Vol. 2) - 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 Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Many critics have commented on Miss O'Connor's irony, but they have not explained why it is so devastating. Her irony lies in an awareness that all people—criminal and grandmother—are in love with themselves.
Irvin Malin, in his New American Gothic (© 1962 by Southern Illinois University Press; reprinted by permission of Southern Illinois University Press), Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962, p. 36.
Flannery O'Connor's limitations were numerous and her range was narrow: she repeated herself frequently and she ignored an impressively large spectrum of human experience. But what she did well, she did with exquisite competence: her ear for dialogue,...
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