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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:

(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).

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Gangbare naam
O'Connor, Flannery
Officiële naam
O'Connor, Mary Flannery
Geboortedatum
1925-03-25
Overlijdensdatum
1964-08-03
Graflocatie
Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
complications of lupus
Woonplaatsen
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Redding, Connecticut, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Opleiding
University of Iowa (MFA|1947)
Georgia State College for Women (BA|1945)
Peabody Laboratory School
Beroepen
novelist
essayist
reviewer
Relaties
Lytle, Andrew (teacher)
Organisaties
Yaddo
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
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)
Ontwarringsbericht
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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Flannery O'Connor in Legacy Libraries (juni 2022)
August 2021: Flannery O'Connor in Monthly Author Reads (september 2021)
Group Read, June 2018: The Violent Bear it Away in 1001 Books to read before you die (augustus 2018)

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Beste verzameling korte verhalen sinds Hemingway. O'Connery is een nu uit het zicht verdwenen schrijfster uit het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten, met een kort maar (door ziekte) intens beleefd leven. Haar toonzetting is trefzeker, met precies die details die nodig zijn en met een verregaande psychologische diepte. De verhalen draaien bijna altijd om twee mensen (man-vrouw, zoon-moeder, grootvader-kleinkind, enz) die nauwe relatie hebben, maar daar absoluut niet tevreden mee zijn; maar het eigenlijke thema is meestal een sociale context (vooral de verhoudingen tussen de rassen, maar ook de futiliteit van goede werken). Na een trage opbouw volgt meestal een (soms wel bijzonder) gewelddadige ontknoping, vandaar dat O'Connors verhalen bekend staan als grotesken. Haar oeuvre doet erg aan Edgar Allen Poe denken, en uiteraard (door de setting) aan Faulkner. Prachtig: het titelverhaal (Everything that Rises), A View on the Woods, en The Lame shall enter First. Knap en ontluisterend, O'Connor maakt heel mooi duidelijk dat het perspectief van waaruit je de wereld en je eigen wereld bekijkt hyper-individueel is en nooit aan absolute normen kan worden afgemeten.… (meer)
 
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