Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The South is Christ-haunted

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted." -- Flannery O'Connor, in her article The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South

(Just saw this quote in a Tom Cannon post and thought it was so well said that it needed to be reposted.)

4 comments:

  1. O'Connor was a very interesting woman. Unfortunately I've read more about than I've read of her work, which is kind of silly since I have her complete works on my bookshelves. It is one of those reading projects I keep intending to get around to.

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  2. I've thought that since we moved here 13 years ago.

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  3. i have a writer friend who is a BIG fan of O'Conner. she was constantly quoting her or reading from her short stories. the only Flannery O'Conner i know probably came straight out of Zoe's mouth or was handed to me in paper form from Zoe's hand.

    and i know she has a lot of really deep and interesting things to say.

    but she seems to have so much death hanging around her stories, that i just couldn't get into them.

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  4. I agree. From the few I've read I find I get entranced by her literary expertise but the story content tends to leave me feeling unsettled, which is what I think her aim was.

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