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Bezig met laden... Mystery and Manners (origineel 1969; editie 2014)door Flannery O'Connor (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkFlannery O'Connor: Mystery and Manners door Sally Fitzgerald (Editor) (1969)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. If no other thing, read "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. For the writing, for the humor, for the brilliancy. ( ) A reading friend encouraged me to continue reading O'Connor after I expressed the miserable experience with [Wise Blood], and I'm glad he did. [A Good man is Hard to Find] deserves to be in the canon of best short fiction ever written. These essays, posthumously collected, deserve the same treatment in the canon of writing about writing. This may be one of the best books I've ever read on the writing process, the aspects of fiction, and the value of storytelling. You can find many of the pieces in the collected works of O'Connor, but they serve as a nice self-contained collection all on their own. O'Connor may have thought on her place in literature, and her work's connection to faith and spirituality, more than any other author I've come across. Her sense of place, as a Southern writer or religiously-influenced writer, is really a broader comment on her own practice of faith more than anything else. These works should be mandatory reading in any Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program - we'd see an elevation of the work if they were. 5 bones!!!!! Highly recommended This is a great collection of, as the subtitle states clearly, the occasional essays penned by O'Connor. While no theme ties the material together, it yet offers a genuine insight into her thinking on matters as idiosyncratic as raising peacocks, and as steeped and penetrating as her views on writing short stories. If you're already a fan of her work - and I am - then you'll be delighted with this text. It almost feels like the kind of conversation one might have had with her in a coffee shop or at the front of a room after a conference presentation, and yet her writing contains the kind of edge and humour that can only come from craft. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising "Mystery and Manners," selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith. The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems. This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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