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| Title | : | 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood |
| Author | : | Flannery O'Connor |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | August 21st 1986 by Signet Classics (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. Literature. American. Southern. Novels. Literary Fiction |
Flannery O'Connor
Paperback | Pages: 496 pages Rating: 4.31 | 1773 Users | 97 Reviews
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Flannery O'Connor is a diminutive, sprite-like woman who writes some of the most powerful fiction (of its type) that I have ever read.If you like Faulkner, you will most likely enjoy O'Connor's work as well. It is a kind of theater of the macabre, southern, holy, and surreal all at once. The characters arrive in the story as if in a fever dream, emerging from some faint mist that she has shrouded them in so that they may pop out at just the right moment; they take on their lives fully-formed, portraying real people with extraordinary personal problems embedded deep in their psyche. O'Connor's action takes place deep in the minds and beliefs of her characters, with their thoughts boiling out into the area around them to wreck havoc. I have seen stills from a movie created about Wise Blood; the characters look like they fell out of a Magritte painting, which I think is an apt tone to give to them.
There isn't much action in the two main novels in this collection (at least not in the traditional sense of action), but the work still draws you in nonetheless. With that in mind, I believe that O'Connor should be read for one of two reasons (though you can get a casual reading pleasure from them both as well):
1) To study, digest, and think about. Her work is incredibly complicated, with symbolic set pieces strewn throughout. Quite frankly, when I finished a recent reread of Wise Blood, I felt like I needed to sit and talk about it for an hour with other readers just to scratch the surface of the meaning. The same could be said of The Violent Bear it Away--each of these two novels captures your (can I call it this?) critical-thinking attention and will not let it go.
2) As a writer. Just as Faulkner, Joyce, and Woolf should be read by serious writers in order to explore both their style and the ways in which they bend and break the rules of language, so too should O'Connor be studied for the ways in which she extrapolates character in the simplest of beliefs. O'Connor has a way of stretching these beliefs into monstrous proportions, pulling them like taffy to find all the little nuances that lie within. As a writer, I found it fascinating that she could pull and pull on a character like that, finding new truths hiding deep within that she would then share with the reader. Though in The Violent Bear it Away it gets a bit tiresome at in the first 30 pages, the rest of the two main novels in this collection are to be studied and admired for their scope.
The Signet edition of O'Connor's work is a steal. For less than ten dollars (when I bought it) you can get two of her novels, plus a collection of short stories.
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| Original Title: | Three by Flannery O'Connor |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.31 From 1773 Users | 97 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood
I am sorry but the infusion of religion into all of Flannery O'Connor's writing is more than I can manage at this point in my secular humanist life. Her humor does reach me at times but not enough to keep me going.This book is a set of three short stories.Wise Blood~~~~~~~~~~When I read this in college it was way over my head (or, more likely, at the time my head was too full of other nonsense to take it all in). My second time through demonstrated its power. Not a word is wasted and as you pay attention you quickly realize it's not a story as much as a treatise on people and their notions about life, faith and the way things are.The characters are grotesque:"Mrs. Watts was sitting alone in a white iron
OConnor says that Hazel Motes is a Christian malgre lui, but he seems to me more of an instinctual Existentialist who has no set of references for philosophical concepts beyond those of the fundamentalist Christianity in which he was raised and which surrounds him in the South of the mid 20th century.Finished A Good Man is Hard to Find December 19, 2014The alias of the escaped convict in the title story, The Misfit, could be applied to one or more of the characters in each story in this
Why Do The Heathen Rage? By Flannery OConnorTilman had had his stroke in the state capitalWow! Action and tragedy from the very start.To laugh at itit is a very short storyonly some 20 (?) pages long, so we need to get going to finish early.Like the other Flannery OConnor stories, this one is an example of superb writing, creative descriptions of people, nature, the weather and situations. It has a powerful message, shocking statements and moral conclusionsCome to think of it, this is Perfect
Started last night a bit. I haven't read that much by FOC but what I did read was cherce! I assume this will be awesome...I'm still reading the none-too-interesting introduction which goes on and on. Plus... I've been shoveling like a machine the past few days. Getting worn out by evening time and having a hard time focusing on the writing! More snow due tonight and tomorrow!Well... I skipped through that pesky, boring intro and got right to the story(Wise Blood) reminds me of "The Artificial
Wise Blood: One of only two entries that I am aware of in the genre of darkly comic, grotesque Christian novels, and the superior one, as far as I'm concerned (the other being the still-interesting Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West). O'Connor doesn't really tip her hat as to which side she comes down on in the actual text (though she was outspoken in defense of faith elsewhere) and the book can easily be read as vindicating either Hazel's skepticism or his faith, though it takes a cynical
As much as I appreciate Flannery O'Connor's stories for their literary merit, I cannot like them. She creates the most depressing worlds with the most unlikeable, frustrating characters. Her obvious dislike of pride or smugness leads to their inevitable demise, in the best of grotesque ways (that's right, I'm talkig about you "Greenleaf"). I think my professor said it best when she asked us, "Why is it worse to wear a gorilla suit than to run over a man in your car?" ("Wise Blood" not so wise
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