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• W84820866 abstract "In one of her essays Flannery O'Connor claims that best American fiction has always been regional. This fiction has passed to and stayed longest wherever there has been a shared past, a sense of alikeness, and possibility of reading a small history in a universal light. (1) She continues by saying that South enjoys a slight though perhaps dwindling advantage over other parts of country in its distinct insularity caused by loss of Civil War. South has had its Fall: We have gone into modern world with an inburnt knowledge of human limitations and with a sense of mystery which could not have developed in our first state of innocence--as it has not sufficiently developed in rest of our country.... In South we have, in however attenuated a form, a vision of Moses' face as he pulverized our idols. (MM 59) Faced with lingering disease of lupus and chronic illness, author herself for a number of years had to meet another form of defeat in her gradual physical destruction. Her inevitable contemplation upon her own death must have made her consideration of life all more intense. character in a novel by E.M. Forster has said, destroys a man: idea of Death saves him. (2) Whether or not Flannery O'Connor was saved must be a matter of speculation, but her letters show that her affliction only strengthened her dedication to her art. She writes about a trip to France: I've been to Lourdes once, as a patient not as a helper. I felt that being on crutches I was probably healthiest person there. I prayed for novel I was working on not for my bones, which I care about less. (3) fiction of Flannery O'Connor also suggests that destruction can be positive, that violence can instruct, and that evil may be agent of good. Her stories often seem poised between two worlds: one filled with various rational answers to problem of man's existence, other composed of mystery and irrational. But tenous quality of order found in daytime world is constantly foreshadowed by passages reflecting abyss of a darker region. Thus in The Artificial Nigger, Mr. Head talks about a Southern city and its system, how entire city was underlined with it, how it contained all drainage and was full of rats and how a man could slide into it and be sucked along down endless pitch-black tunnels. At any minute any man in city might be sucked into sewer and never heard from (4) Similarly at end of O'Connor's novel, Wise Blood, doddering and spiritually blind landlady looks into eyes of Hazel Motes, who has physically blinded himself with a bag of lye. She sees that the outline of a skull was plain under his skin and deep burned eye sockets seemed to lead into dark tunnel where he had disappeared(126). And in A Good Man is Hard to Find, narrator reports that just beyond area where some travelers are passing on their relatively merry way, woods gaped like a dark open mouth (CS 127). O'Connor seems to feel that person who at least glimpses into this second world--ominous though it may be--is spiritually richer than one who never does. view into this mysterious irrational world is usually offered only after one has suffered affliction. Although after glimpse has taken place, not all is magnolia and verbena once again. Quite opposite often seems to be true. At end of A Good Man is Hard to Find, for instance, reader must reckon with apparently senseless murders of five people on their way to a vacation in Florida. In certain stories some of main characters never take that important glimpse, but because of violent upheaval in which author leaves them, it is reader who is forced to confront irrational. O'Connor helps us to understand her technique in an essay called The Fiction Writer and His Country, where she says, When you can assume that your audience holds same beliefs you do, you can relax a little 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 hard of hearing you shout, and for almost-blind you draw large and startling figures (MM 34). …" @default.
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• W84820866 title "Positive Destruction in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor" @default.
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