![]() ![]() All this makes her a problematic study for a biographer determined to deliver her as a personality. Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology-driven fiction. ![]() Admittedly, any portrait of Flannery O∬onnor is apt to leave an aftertaste: As her letters and drawings reveal, she indulged no sweet view of herself. Goochs portrait of this major American writer, with its entertaining wealth of ∿lannery anecdotes from people who knew her in various capacities”family, neighbors, literary associates, spiritual advisors, admirers”depicts the kind of character for whom the phrase an interesting person in her own right was coined.Īnd yet its a fragmented portrait, with a sour aftertaste. At best, Brad Goochs Flannery: A Life of Flannery O∬onnor delivers a mixed cargo of goods. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |