"The greatest of Flannery O'Connor's books is her last, post-humously-published collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge. Though it is customary to interpret O'Connor's allusion to the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin as ironic, it seems to me that there is no irony involved. There are many small ironies in these nine stories, certainly, and they are comic-grotesque and flamboyant and heartbreaking- but no ultimate irony is intended and the book is not a tragic one. It is a collection of revelations; like all revelations, it points to a dimension of experiential truth that lies outside the sphere of the questing, speculative mind, but which is nevertheless available to all."
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Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesEnvironmentalists from the United States
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Joyce Carol Oates "The Visionary Art of Flannery O'Connor," Southern Humanities Review, vol. 7, no. 3 (Summer, 1973)
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Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was a novelist, short story writer and essayist who lived in Georgia, USA. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
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