O'Connor, Flannery (Vol. 3) - O'Connor, Flannery 1925–1964
O'Connor, Flannery 1925–1964
A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O'Connor was a fundamentalist Christian moralist whose powerful apocalyptic fiction is central to the Southern Renascence. Her treatment of good and evil has been likened to Hawthorne's, her employment of the grotesque to Dostoevsky's and Nathanael West's, her satire to that of Swift and Juvenal. Although often labeled "Southern Gothic," her work has little in common with that of Carson McCullers and Truman Capote, writers who define that tradition and whose work she disliked. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Miss O'Connor reserved her finest wrath for those closest to her heart, her co-religionists (a term she would have hated), who like all other Americans with hearts in the wrong place wanted them lifted up. For her part, as a writer and a Catholic, as a Catholic writer, her aim in art was simply put: her "subject in fiction," she...
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