【美国人物志】弗兰纳里·奥康纳(8/11)
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.Hints:
Tarwater's
O'Connor's
Flannery
"A Good Man is Hard to Find,"
"Wise Blood,"
Jesus Christ
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own,"
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201310/201310230920054966236.mp3Critics say Tarwater's violence comes from his attempt to find truth by denying religion. In the end, however, he accepts that he has been touched by a deeper force, the force of the word of God, and he must accept that word. Both of O'Connor's novels explore the long moment of fear when a young man must choose between the difficulties of growing up and the safe world of a child.
Flannery O'Connor is at least as well known for her stories as for her novels. Her first book of stories, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," appeared in 1955. In it she deals with many of the ideas she wrote about in "Wise Blood," such as the search for Jesus Christ. In many of the stories there is a conflict between the world of the spirit and the world of the body. In the story, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," a traveling workman with only one arm comes to a farm. He claims to be more concerned with things of the spirit than with objects.批评家表示马里昂的暴力来源于试图通过否定宗教来找寻真实。但在最后,他承认自己被一股更为强大的力量而触动,即上帝的箴言之力。而他必须接受这些言论。奥康纳的作品都展示了在一个年轻人必须在成长的艰难和那个安全的孩童时代之间进行抉择时的长久恐惧之心。弗兰纳里·奥康纳的故事最终和她的小说一样出名。她的第一部小说集《好人难寻》在1955年面世,在该书中她处理了很多在《智血》中曾经提及的观点,如找寻耶稣。在很多故事中都会出现精神世界和物质世界的冲突。在《你拯救的生命可能属于自己》一个故事中,一个旅行中的独臂工人来到农场上。他声称相比于对于物质上的,他对精神更为关注。
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