Dec 29, 2009

Everything That Rises Must Converge | Everything That Rises Must Converge

At a glance:

Author: Flannery O’Connor
First Published: 1961
Type of Work: Short stories
Genres: Psychological fiction, Social realism, Short fiction
Subjects: African Americans, Values, Mothers, Parents and children, Class conflict, Racism, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, Religion, Class consciousness, Violence, Death or dying, Revelation, Generation gap, Hats
Locales: South (U.S.)

Form and Content

Everything That Rises Must Converge is a gathering of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories written between 1956 and 1964 which had not been previously published in book form. It includes the title story and eight others. The story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” is one of O’Connor’s best, and it remains one of her most-anthologized stories. The title is a quotation from Catholic theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who imagined an “omega point” at which the “rising” or evolving human being would meet God. By analogy, people of...

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Everything That Rises Must Converge | Everything That Rises Must Converge

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Form and Content

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