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Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)

Autor(a) de Complete Stories

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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(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).

Obras por Flannery O'Connor

Complete Stories (1971) 6,643 exemplares
Wise Blood (1952) 3,818 exemplares
The Violent Bear It Away (1960) 1,761 exemplares
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (1988) 1,547 exemplares
A Prayer Journal (2013) 418 exemplares
Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons (2012) 85 exemplares
Seven Contemporary Short Novels [second edition] (1969) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
A Memoir of Mary Ann (1961) 32 exemplares
O'Connor 22 exemplares
Good Country People 18 exemplares
The Lame Shall Enter First (1962) 15 exemplares
Novelas (2011) 12 exemplares
Dommens dag : noveller (1971) 10 exemplares
The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2015) 10 exemplares
Revelation (2005) 9 exemplares
Um diario de preces (2014) 8 exemplares
O Céu é dos Violentos (2014) 7 exemplares
Palava kehä (1984) 6 exemplares
Flannery O'Connor Short Stories (1995) 5 exemplares
Sangue Sábio (1990) 4 exemplares
Antologia Indispensável (1996) 4 exemplares
Parker's Back 4 exemplares
La buena gente del campo (1955) 4 exemplares
Mon mal vient de plus loin. (1968) 4 exemplares
Diario di preghiera (2016) 3 exemplares
The River 3 exemplares
A Memoir of Mary Ann 3 exemplares
Punto Omega (2022) 3 exemplares
Diario de oración (2018) 3 exemplares
Judgement Day 3 exemplares
Her Cikisin Bir Inisi Vardir (2011) 3 exemplares
The Province of Joy 2 exemplares
Death of a Child (1961) 2 exemplares
Sem título 2 exemplares
Gli storpi entreranno per primi (1991) 2 exemplares
The Comforts of Home 2 exemplares
Tots els contes (2011) 2 exemplares
Il geranio e altre storie (2023) 2 exemplares
The Displaced Person 2 exemplares
Tutti i racconti Vol. 1 (2001) 2 exemplares
Tutti i racconti. Vol 2 (2001) 2 exemplares
BRA FOLK FRÅN LANDET (1981) 2 exemplares
“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

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,552 exemplares
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005) — Contribuidor — 1,211 exemplares
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 743 exemplares
The Dark Descent (1987) — Contribuidor — 719 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 510 exemplares
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 461 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 452 exemplares
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contribuidor — 368 exemplares
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 282 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers (1995) — Contribuidor — 115 exemplares
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições95 exemplares
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
Eyes to See (2008) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
Ross Macdonald Selects Great Stories of Suspense (1974) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Medusa in the Shield (1990) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (2000) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Art of Fiction (1967) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Prejudice: A Story Collection (1995) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Literary Savannah (1998) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Eyes to See, Volume Two (2008) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Wise Blood [1979 film] (2009) — Original story — 22 exemplares
The Best Horror Stories (1977) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (2012) — Contribuidor, algumas edições20 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1966 (1966) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1956 (1956) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Family: Stories from the Interior (1987) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Robert Penn Warren talking: Interviews, 1950-1978 (1980) — Interviewed — 14 exemplares
The living novel, a symposium (1957) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1962 (1962) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (1952) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing (1966) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards (1963) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (1958) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
New World Writing 19 (1961) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
O'Connor, Flannery
Nome legal
O'Connor, Mary Flannery
Data de nascimento
1925-03-25
Data de falecimento
1964-08-03
Localização do túmulo
Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Local de falecimento
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Causa da morte
complications of lupus
Locais de residência
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
Redding, Connecticut, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Educação
University of Iowa (MFA|1947)
Georgia State College for Women (BA|1945)
Peabody Laboratory School
Ocupações
novelist
essayist
reviewer
Relações
Lytle, Andrew (teacher)
Organizações
Yaddo
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Prémios e menções honrosas
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)
Nota de desambiguação
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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Discussions

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

Críticas

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 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
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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.
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Jak_Z | 2 outras críticas | Feb 27, 2024 |
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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.… (mais)
 
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vangogan | 2 outras críticas | 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 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Obras
182
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Membros
25,994
Popularidade
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Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
452
ISBN
301
Línguas
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