【美国人物志】弗兰纳里·奥康纳(10/11)
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:
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"Everything That Rises Must Converge,"
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201310/201310231051594686763.mp3In 1964, O'Connor was operated on for a stomach disease. One result of this operation was the return of lupus, the disease that killed her father. On August 3rd, 1964, Flannery O'Connor died. She was 39 years old. Near the end of her life she said, "I'm a born Catholic, and death has always been brother to my imagination."
The next year, in 1965, her final collection of stories, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," appeared. In it she speaks of the cruelty of disease and the deeper cruelty that exists between parents and children. In these stories, grown children are in a struggle with parents they neither love nor leave. Many of the children feel guilty about hating the mothers who, the children feel, have destroyed them through love. The children want to rebel violently, but they fear losing their mothers' protection.在1964年，奥康纳接受了胃部手术。手术的一个后遗症就是她的红斑狼疮复发了，正是那个病杀死了她的父亲。在1964年8月3日，弗兰纳里·奥康纳病逝，年仅39岁。在她临终之前表示“我生来就是天主教徒，死亡就像是我灵感的兄弟，如影随形。”此后一年，1965年，她的最后一部小说集《那上升的一切必将汇合》面世。在该书中她阐述了疾病的残酷，和父母子女之间更为残酷的关系所在。在这些故事中，长大的孩子们和既不爱也不离开他们的父母间的斗争。很多孩子对于他们自己觉得憎恨自己的母亲，认为母亲通过爱毁掉自己感到有负罪感。这些孩子想奋起反抗，但他们担心失去母亲的保护。
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