Flannery O'Connor – författare
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Reading Flannery O'Connor's letters, one feels the living presence in them. Their tone, their content, and even the number of those she corresponded with, reveal the vivid life that was in her, and much of the quality of a personality often badly guessed at.
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"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O''Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O''Connor was a student far from home at the University of Iowa, A Prayer Journal is a rare portal into the interior life of the great writer. Not only does it map O''Connor''s singular relationship with the divine, but it shows how entwined her literary desire was with her yearning for God. "I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense of aesthetic craftsmanship; otherwise I will feel my loneliness continually . . . I do not want to be lonely all my life but people only make us lonelier by reminding us of God. Dear God please help me to be an artist, please let it lead to You."O''Connor could not be more plain about her literary ambition: "Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted," she writes. Yet she struggles with any trace of self-regard: "Don''t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story."As W. A. Sessions, who knew O''Connor, writes in his introduction, it was no coincidence that she began writing the stories that would become her first novel, Wise Blood, during the years when she wrote these singularly imaginative Christian meditations. Including a facsimile of the entire journal in O''Connor''s own hand, A Prayer Journal is the record of a brilliant young woman''s coming-of-age, a cry from the heart for love, grace, and art.
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O''Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction
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Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O''Connor''s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O''Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O''Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master''s degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, "Judgement Day"--sent to her publisher shortly before her death—is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of "The Geranium." Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O''Connor''s longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.