Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the best short story authors of the 20th century. She wrote about religious themes and southern life, as well as religious scenes in the American South.
O'Connor’s work has been commented on as ‘stories about original sin’. Her writing can be described as being about the action of grace in the world, about those moments in which grace, usually in the form of violence, moves down on her comically content characters, sometimes opening their eyes to an atrocious comprehension and sometimes killing them. Many readers find O’Connor’s identification of the transcendent with an aggressive force repulsive and even more outrageous than the stories themselves. O’Connor on the other hand believed that a fierce shock was necessary to bring both her characters and her modern materialistic audience to knowledge of the potent reality of the realm of awe-inspiring mystery.
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by O'Connor and published posthumously in 1965.
The collection is classified as Southern Gothic literature. There are elements of mamacbre twists, eccentric characters and very absurd stories. But in O'Connor’s case the message is mostly spiritual. The background here is of slavery and after affects of the American Civil War.
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