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Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)

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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
Särskiljningsinformation:

(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).

Verk av Flannery O'Connor

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Blodsbunden (1952) 3,818 exemplar
Och stormen för oss vidare (1960) 1,761 exemplar
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A Prayer Journal (2013) 418 exemplar
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A Memoir of Mary Ann (1961) 32 exemplar
O'Connor 22 exemplar
Good Country People 18 exemplar
The Lame Shall Enter First (1962) 15 exemplar
Novelas (2011) 12 exemplar
Dommens dag : noveller (1971) 10 exemplar
Revelation (2005) 9 exemplar
Um diario de preces (2014) 8 exemplar
O Céu é dos Violentos (2014) 7 exemplar
Palava kehä (1984) 6 exemplar
Sangue Sábio (1990) 4 exemplar
Antologia Indispensável (1996) 4 exemplar
Parker's Back 4 exemplar
La buena gente del campo (1955) 4 exemplar
Mon mal vient de plus loin. (1968) 4 exemplar
Diario di preghiera (2016) 3 exemplar
The River 3 exemplar
Punto Omega (2022) 3 exemplar
Diario de oración (2018) 3 exemplar
Judgement Day 3 exemplar
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Death of a Child (1961) 2 exemplar
Ingen titel 2 exemplar
Tots els contes (2011) 2 exemplar
Il geranio e altre storie (2023) 2 exemplar
Tutti i racconti Vol. 1 (2001) 2 exemplar
Tutti i racconti. Vol 2 (2001) 2 exemplar
“Revelation” 1 exemplar
Journal de prière (2019) 1 exemplar
The Peeler 1 exemplar
The Train 1 exemplar
The Turkey 1 exemplar
The Crop 1 exemplar
Wildcat 1 exemplar
The Barber 1 exemplar
The Geranium 1 exemplar
La Récolte 1 exemplar
Home of the Brave (1981) 1 exemplar
Bilge Kan (2015) 1 exemplar
The Complete Stories (1983) 1 exemplar
Displaced Person 1 exemplar
Nel territorio del diavolo (1998) 1 exemplar
[Tutti i racconti] 2 (1994) 1 exemplar
The Enduring Chill 1 exemplar
Contos de Crime 1 exemplar
Freedom Fries (2004) 1 exemplar

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The Dark Descent (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 719 exemplar
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 368 exemplar
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 365 exemplar
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 282 exemplar
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 267 exemplar
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 211 exemplar
We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 193 exemplar
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 142 exemplar
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 121 exemplar
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 121 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 117 exemplar
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 115 exemplar
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 98 exemplar
American Short Stories (1976) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor95 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 74 exemplar
Eyes to See (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 71 exemplar
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
The Medusa in the Shield (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 56 exemplar
Art of Fiction (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
Prejudice: A Story Collection (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Literary Savannah (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar
American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 25 exemplar
One World of Literature (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
Eyes to See, Volume Two (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
Wise Blood [1979 film] (2009) — Original story — 22 exemplar
The Best Horror Stories (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (2012) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor20 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1966 (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1956 (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Robert Penn Warren talking: Interviews, 1950-1978 (1980) — Interviewed — 14 exemplar
The living novel, a symposium (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
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The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1962 (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
New World Writing 19 (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
O'Connor, Flannery
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
O'Connor, Mary Flannery
Födelsedag
1925-03-25
Avled
1964-08-03
Begravningsplats
Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Dödsort
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Dödsorsak
complications of lupus
Bostadsorter
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Redding, Connecticut, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Utbildning
University of Iowa (MFA|1947)
Georgia State College for Women (BA|1945)
Peabody Laboratory School
Yrken
novelist
essayist
reviewer
Relationer
Lytle, Andrew (teacher)
Organisationer
Yaddo
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Priser och utmärkelser
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)
Särskiljningsnotis
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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Diskussioner

Flannery O'Connor i Legacy Libraries (juni 2022)
August 2021: Flannery O'Connor i Monthly Author Reads (september 2021)
Group Read, June 2018: The Violent Bear it Away i 1001 Books to read before you die (augusti 2018)

Recensioner

I'm giving this five stars not because it's without flaws, but because there just isn't a bad story in this collection. Just under twenty years of work in this volume, and it's just--extraordinary. My current favorite might be "Good Country People" in large part because of how unusual it is in her oeuvre to write a character like Hulga, and how skillfully she does it.
 
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localgayangel | 66 andra recensioner | Mar 5, 2024 |
How interesting would it be to read an incomplete partial manuscript by an author who had written only two novels and a couple of collections of short stories? That's the first thought that came into my mind when considering this book. But I should have been less skeptical since it turned out to be both very interesting and quite an enjoyable read.
In contrast to my skepticism of reading a partial manuscript, as an ex-Catholic I am still somewhat intrigued by some of the more steadfast Catholics authors like Walker Percy, Graham Green and O'Connor whose fiction reflects the stresses and tension between their religious ideology and their more secularist view of the world. Combine that with O'Connor's southern cultural environment, along with the racial turmoil of the 1950s and 60s that permeated that environment, and you can end up with literary mush rather than insightful literary writing. Fortunately this work reflects aspects of the latter rather than the former.
Jessica Horton Wilson has done an excellent job of illuminating O'Connor's literary genius and reflecting how her writing was intimately tied to her short and very limited lifestyle. You learn as much about Flannery as a person and writer as you do about what this fragmentary manuscript might have turned into if O'Connor's early illness and death had not been such a determinative force.
This study is also complemented by 7 excellent linoleum cut prints by Steve Prince an exceptionally gifted young artist. Each of the illustrations very vividly captures a powerful and insightful scene in the manuscript. This book is an excellent addition to any Flannery O'Connor or literary collection.
… (mer)
 
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Jak_Z | 2 andra recensioner | Feb 27, 2024 |
As someone who likes Flannery O'Connor's writing, I was glad to win this book of her unfinished third novel, Why Do the Heathen Rage? Unfortunately, because it was unfinished, and unorganized, we are given snippets of the fragments. I enjoyed the snippets, but I wish the author, Jessica Hooten Wilson, had told us how much of the manuscript was given to us in her book. I'm not sure, as I'm sure Wilson wasn't sure, and O'Connor wasn't sure, how this story would have unfolded, but Wilson does not really elaborate on how she organized the fragments given to us, and I would have liked more information on the manuscripts themselves, and if there was any chronological order to them. Wilson does mention that several parts of the manuscript were rewritten, however. The fragments whetted my appetite and wish that O'Connor had been able to finish this work. I did not like Wilson's attempt to finish the story in a way that she felt it might work out, especially using an excerpt from another of O'Connor's works, The Violent Bear It Away; I doubt O'Connor would have repeated a scene from another novel of hers, but would have tried for something different. Instead, I would have just liked, instead, all the parts of the manuscript that hadn't been presented earlier in the novel to be presented to us in an appendix (unless all parts had already been presented--Wilson doesn't make clear how much of the unfinished novel she has provided us with). I'm not sure, either, of Wilson's conclusions that O'Connor didn't know how to finish this novel because she wasn't able to get into the perspective of black characters. I'm not sure if that was O'Connor's intention, anyway. O'Connor had her specific audience in mind, which seems to be white people who could tend to be racist, etc., and so her intent was to change white people's views--but not necessarily about social issues, but, rather, spiritual perspectives. I did like Wilson's ending discussion of Mrs. Turpin and how we as humans have both "heathen" and "saint", both "hog" and "human." This is a good addition to the O'Connor canon, but I wish Wilson had provided more context about the manuscripts themselves and O'Connor's writing than her own comments about them.… (mer)
 
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vangogan | 2 andra recensioner | Feb 17, 2024 |
Delightfully, deliciously grotesque. However I would have liked Hazel Motes to have been at least partially successful in his "Church Without Christ." O'Connor's point is undercut somewhat by the derision Haze gets for his efforts.
I think I prefer O'Connor's short stories to this. Honestly, a little smug Catholicism goes a long way.
 
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ethorwitz | 111 andra recensioner | Jan 3, 2024 |

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