Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)
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Über den Autor
Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia. She had a quiet, bookish life as a child before attending Georgia State College for Women and going on tot he Writers Workshop at the State University of Iowa, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Her 1949 dissertation consisted of six mehr anzeigen short stories, one of which she developed into her first novel, Wise Blood (1952). Wise Blood is the story of a fanatical, wandering preacher who sets out to found a "church of truth without Jesus Christ crucified." The book introduces some of the religious themes that run throughout O'Connor's later work. Her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away (1960), is the story of murder involving a Tennessee backwoods preacher and a small boy. Once again, O'Connor explores unusual manifestation of religion and human eccentricities. Although O'Connor produced only a small body of work during her relatively brief lifetime, she has received much critical attention. O'Connor suffered from lupus, an inherited disease, which crippled her and cut short her life, and so her creative work was largely compressed within a decade of the 1950's. Her father also dies of Lupus when she was 15 years old. O'Connor is frequently praised as being the most creative and distinctive writer of this period. The two most notable aspects of her fiction are its religious themes and its commentary on the oppressive traditions of the mid-twentieth-century Deep South. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Hinweis zur Begriffsklärung:
(eng) There are two different versions of the book Three (or 3). They both contain Wise Blood and The Violent Will Bear It Away, and some contain A Good Man Is Hard to Find while others contain Everything That Rises Must Converge. Please be conscious of this difference when adding or combining works. If you own an edition of Three, please make sure it is combined with the correct work, and please do not combine the two separate works entitled Three (or 3).
Werke von Flannery O'Connor
Ein guter Mensch ist schwer zu finden. Und andere Erzählungen. (1955) 4,154 Exemplare, 98 Rezensionen
Three by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Wise Blood (1964) 1,462 Exemplare, 12 Rezensionen
Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away (1952) 430 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends (2019) 73 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
O'Connor 22 Exemplare
Flannery OConnor's Why Do the Heathen Rage: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress (2024) 21 Exemplare, 6 Rezensionen
Il giorno del giudizio e altri racconti 17 Exemplare
Return to Wingfield Point 16 Exemplare
Una donna frivola e altri racconti. 7 Exemplare
The Geranium and Other Stories 5 Exemplare
Parker's Back 4 Exemplare
The River 3 Exemplare
The Displaced Person 3 Exemplare
A Temple of the Holy Ghost 3 Exemplare
Il cielo è dei violenti 2 Exemplare
Judgement Day 2 Exemplare
The Province of Joy 2 Exemplare
Kein Titel 2 Exemplare
The Comforts of Home 2 Exemplare
The Artificial Nigger {story} 2 Exemplare
Enoch e il gorilla (in Tutti i racconti) 2 Exemplare
Good country people, and the Enduring chill 2 Exemplare
Holiday: September, 1961 2 Exemplare
Il barbiere (in Tutti i racconti) 2 Exemplare
La Sagesse dans le sang - Les Braves gens ne courent pas les rues - Et ce sont les violents qui l'emportent - Mon… (1991) 2 Exemplare
Greenleaf (in Tutti i racconti) 2 Exemplare
Amore e rabbia (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
The Turkey 1 Exemplar
The Peeler 1 Exemplar
A Stroke of Good Fortune 1 Exemplar
The Train 1 Exemplar
Wildcat 1 Exemplar
The Crop 1 Exemplar
A View of the Woods 1 Exemplar
The Geranium 1 Exemplar
Flannery O'Connor Collection 1 Exemplar
“Revelation” 1 Exemplar
The Violent Bear It Away 1 Exemplar
A Circle in the Fire 1 Exemplar
The Partridge Festival 1 Exemplar
Three by Flannery O'Conner 1 Exemplar
Everthing That Rises Must Converge 1 Exemplar
O'Conner, Flannery Archive 1 Exemplar
Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor 1 Exemplar
ORMANIN TAM İÇİNDEN 1 Exemplar
Why Do Heathen Rage? 1 Exemplar
Mystery and manners : occasional prose 1 Exemplar
Wise Blood 1 Exemplar
Il geranio (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
The Heart of the Park [short story] 1 Exemplar
Il fiume (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Hard To Find And Other Stories 1 Exemplar
Contos de Crime 1 Exemplar
Un cerchio nel fuoco (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Il profugo (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
La veduta del bosco (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Malattia mortale (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Gli agi della casa (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Punto omega (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
La festa delle azalee (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Il giorno del giudizio (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
La schiena di Parker (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
The Enduring Chill 1 Exemplar
Khó mà tìm được một người tốt 1 Exemplar
İyi İnsan Olmak Zor 1 Exemplar
Rivelazione (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Allt som stiger måste stråla samman 1 Exemplar
Stories and occasional prose 1 Exemplar
Un ragionevole uso dell'irragionevole. Saggi sulla scrittura e lettere sulla creatività (2019) 1 Exemplar
O mundo e dos violentos 1 Exemplar
La lince (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
O`CONNOR: COLLECTED WORKS 1 Exemplar
Il raccolto (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Il tacchino (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Il treno (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Il pelapatate (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Il cuore del parco (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Un colpo di fortuna (in Tutti i racconti) 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Mitwirkender — 1,576 Exemplare, 10 Rezensionen
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005) — Mitwirkender — 1,227 Exemplare, 14 Rezensionen
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English (1985) — Mitwirkender — 866 Exemplare
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Mitwirkender — 464 Exemplare, 4 Rezensionen
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Mitwirkender — 458 Exemplare, 7 Rezensionen
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Mitwirkender — 381 Exemplare, 3 Rezensionen
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Mitwirkender — 367 Exemplare, 7 Rezensionen
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Mitwirkender — 204 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Mitwirkender — 188 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Mitwirkender — 184 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Mitwirkender — 150 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Mitwirkender — 140 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Mitwirkender — 121 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Mitwirkender — 94 Exemplare
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Mitwirkender — 69 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Mitwirkender — 62 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (2000) — Mitwirkender — 58 Exemplare, 3 Rezensionen
On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (2012) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 20 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1992) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
New World Writing: Eighth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1955) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Contos Crime: o desvendar de segredos e delitos por grandes mestres da ficção — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- O'Connor, Mary Flannery
- Geburtstag
- 1925-03-25
- Todestag
- 1964-08-03
- Begräbnisort
- Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Sterbeort
- Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
- Todesursache
- complications of lupus
- Wohnorte
- Savannah, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Redding, Connecticut, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Iowa (MFA|1947)
Georgia State College for Women (BA|1945)
Peabody Laboratory School - Berufe
- novelist
essayist
reviewer - Beziehungen
- Lytle, Andrew (teacher)
- Organisationen
- Yaddo
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Georgia Women of Achievement (1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1957)
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
National Book Award for Fiction (1972) - Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- There are two different versions of the book Three (or 3). They both contain Wise Blood and The Violent Will Bear It Away, and some contain A Good Man Is Hard to Find while others contain Everything That Rises Must Converge. Please be conscious of this difference when adding or combining works. If you own an edition of Three, please make sure it is combined with the correct work, and please do not combine the two separate works entitled Three (or 3).
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The Complete Stories von Flannery O'Connor
One of the best short story collections of the twentieth or any century. The brilliance of O'Connor is evident on every page. I find the stories addictive whenever I return to this volume.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Summary: The text of O’Connor’s unfinished work with commentary on her literary process and the tensions she wrestled with in writing.
Flannery O’Connor died in 1964 from lupus at the young age of 39. Despite her illness she penned a number of short stories and two novels. She also wrote numerous letters, essays, and reviews. She was working on a third novel at the time of her death, a fact known mostly among O’Connor scholars. But none dared put the fragments of this novel into print until now. Jessica Hooten Wilson describes how she was a fan of O’Connor since her teen years. During her doctoral research on O’Connor and Dostoevsky, a friend encouraged her to look at the unpublished novel as the most Dostoevskian of O’Connor’s works. This began research that culminated in this work.
In this work, Wilson has arranged the fragments of the novel into something of a coherent narrative. Between fragments she offers her commentary on the work, O’Connor’s process, and the literary influences on the text, and her struggle to complete it. Portions of the novel are introduced by woodcut illustrations by Steve Prince of One Fish Studios. He provides an afterword describing his work with the O’Connor text.
The principle characters of the story are Walter Grandstaff Tilman, a scholar who spends his days writing letters to all and sundry between bouts of illness (shades of O’Connor’s own life?). His father, T.C. Tilman, is nominal head of the family but has suffered a stroke, and is tended by Roosevelt. His mother keeps up the slowly fading farm, directing the efforts of the farm help. She is frustrated but has come to accept Walter’s lack of interest in the farm.
Oona Gibbs is the one other character who plays a significant part. She is a civil rights activist. She lives with a domineering mother and one gets the sense that her correspondence and activism is part of her liberation. Walter begins corresponding with her. He tells her about his life but portrays himself as lack. Too late he realizes the consequence of his deception. Her interest awakened, she wants to visit. To avert the visit, he writes asking her not to come, trying to end the relationship. Too late. She is on her way.
Wilson takes liberty with what O’Connor wrote in the final part, fashioning a crisis and conclusion of sorts from a cross-burning scene on a neighbor’s farm. Wilson borrows scenes from other stories and acknowledges this as presumptuous. To me, it seemed an effort to offer some kind of closure to what was plainly unfinished and unsatisfying. While it would have busied up the text, I wish she would have annotated this chapter: what was from Why Do the Heathen Rage, what came from other works, and what was Wilson.
Wilson interleaves commentary with the fragments of O’Connor’s work. She traces the different iterations of the story, including the name changes Asbury/Walter and his different backstories. Speaking of backstories, Wilson introduces us to the friendship of O’Connor with Maryat Lee, a New York playwright. Lee, a polar opposite to O’Connor, is the likely inspiration for Oona Gibbs, with shades of Ivan Karamazov.
Wilson’s commentary also explores O’Connor’s wrestling with race. She contends that this, as much as illness, helps account for O’Connor’s inability, despite three years of work, to fashion and finish a coherent novel. She notes the plot elements of Roosevelt, Walter’s conflicted choice to write as a Black, and Oona’s activism, as well as the closing scene as part of O’Connor’s struggle. Wilson discusses O’Connor’s segregated life, her blind spots of experience, and a bifurcated spirituality that relegated civil rights to an “earthly and political position.” Yet she sees the novel as an attempt to address the racism of the South.
For Wilson, the unfinished novel represents the unfinished racial awakening in O’Connor’s life. But how ought we evaluate this unfinished story? On one hand, O’Connor fans will revel in new material to read. On the other hand, despite Wilson’s efforts, O’Connor’s text is fragmentary and lacks cohesion. Given all this, the book is one for O’Connor scholars and devotees. For me, as one who has read O’Connor on and off since college, it added to my appreciation of this complicated Southern Catholic writer. And I grieved afresh that she died so young.
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program for review.… (mehr)
Flannery O’Connor died in 1964 from lupus at the young age of 39. Despite her illness she penned a number of short stories and two novels. She also wrote numerous letters, essays, and reviews. She was working on a third novel at the time of her death, a fact known mostly among O’Connor scholars. But none dared put the fragments of this novel into print until now. Jessica Hooten Wilson describes how she was a fan of O’Connor since her teen years. During her doctoral research on O’Connor and Dostoevsky, a friend encouraged her to look at the unpublished novel as the most Dostoevskian of O’Connor’s works. This began research that culminated in this work.
In this work, Wilson has arranged the fragments of the novel into something of a coherent narrative. Between fragments she offers her commentary on the work, O’Connor’s process, and the literary influences on the text, and her struggle to complete it. Portions of the novel are introduced by woodcut illustrations by Steve Prince of One Fish Studios. He provides an afterword describing his work with the O’Connor text.
The principle characters of the story are Walter Grandstaff Tilman, a scholar who spends his days writing letters to all and sundry between bouts of illness (shades of O’Connor’s own life?). His father, T.C. Tilman, is nominal head of the family but has suffered a stroke, and is tended by Roosevelt. His mother keeps up the slowly fading farm, directing the efforts of the farm help. She is frustrated but has come to accept Walter’s lack of interest in the farm.
Oona Gibbs is the one other character who plays a significant part. She is a civil rights activist. She lives with a domineering mother and one gets the sense that her correspondence and activism is part of her liberation. Walter begins corresponding with her. He tells her about his life but portrays himself as lack. Too late he realizes the consequence of his deception. Her interest awakened, she wants to visit. To avert the visit, he writes asking her not to come, trying to end the relationship. Too late. She is on her way.
Wilson takes liberty with what O’Connor wrote in the final part, fashioning a crisis and conclusion of sorts from a cross-burning scene on a neighbor’s farm. Wilson borrows scenes from other stories and acknowledges this as presumptuous. To me, it seemed an effort to offer some kind of closure to what was plainly unfinished and unsatisfying. While it would have busied up the text, I wish she would have annotated this chapter: what was from Why Do the Heathen Rage, what came from other works, and what was Wilson.
Wilson interleaves commentary with the fragments of O’Connor’s work. She traces the different iterations of the story, including the name changes Asbury/Walter and his different backstories. Speaking of backstories, Wilson introduces us to the friendship of O’Connor with Maryat Lee, a New York playwright. Lee, a polar opposite to O’Connor, is the likely inspiration for Oona Gibbs, with shades of Ivan Karamazov.
Wilson’s commentary also explores O’Connor’s wrestling with race. She contends that this, as much as illness, helps account for O’Connor’s inability, despite three years of work, to fashion and finish a coherent novel. She notes the plot elements of Roosevelt, Walter’s conflicted choice to write as a Black, and Oona’s activism, as well as the closing scene as part of O’Connor’s struggle. Wilson discusses O’Connor’s segregated life, her blind spots of experience, and a bifurcated spirituality that relegated civil rights to an “earthly and political position.” Yet she sees the novel as an attempt to address the racism of the South.
For Wilson, the unfinished novel represents the unfinished racial awakening in O’Connor’s life. But how ought we evaluate this unfinished story? On one hand, O’Connor fans will revel in new material to read. On the other hand, despite Wilson’s efforts, O’Connor’s text is fragmentary and lacks cohesion. Given all this, the book is one for O’Connor scholars and devotees. For me, as one who has read O’Connor on and off since college, it added to my appreciation of this complicated Southern Catholic writer. And I grieved afresh that she died so young.
____________________
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers Program for review.… (mehr)
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.I get heartburn whenever someone tries to finish a known author’s unfinished worked. No matter how they try they don’t have quite the same voice. However, Wilson did a decent job of piecing it together, though I don’t think it’s the path O’Connor would have followed. Still it’s interesting to see the final work of such a tortured and creative soul. How the oppressive south produced such a disturbing and insightful writer as Flannery O’Connor will forever be the unanswered mystery.
O'Connor's genius is evident in the stunning writing in this heavily allegorical novel of small-town Southern misfits in search of faith. The characters are not sympathetic or likeable but their lives engender empathy on the part of the reader and keep us reading. The book initiated one of the better book club discussions we've had, wrestling with meaning and intentions of author and characters and events. I'll be reading more O'Connor.
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