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When she died in 1964, Flannery O’Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her lifetime. The brilliant pieces in Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O’Connor’s lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the boldness and simplicity of her 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. There are three essays on regional writing, including “The Fiction Writer and His Country” and “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”; two on teaching literature, including “Total Effect and the Eighth Grade”; and four on 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 gems. Their value to the contemporary reader–and writer–is inestimable.
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“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock — to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”
When she died in 1964, Flannery O’Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her lifetime. The brilliant pieces in Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O’Connor’s lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the boldness and simplicity of her 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. There are three essays on regional writing, including “The Fiction Writer and His Country” and “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”; two on teaching literature, including “Total Effect and the Eighth Grade”; and four on 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 gems. Their value to the contemporary reader–and writer–is inestimable.
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Weight | .35 kg |
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Dimensions | 5.5 × .8 × 8.2 in |
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