Conversations with Flannery Oaconnor

Book Overview

As this collection of interviews shows, Flannery O'Connor's fiction, though bound to a particular time and place, embodies and reveals universal ideas. O'Connor's curiosity about human nature and its various manifestations compelled her to explore mysterious places in the mind and heart. Despite her short life and prolonged illness, O'Connor was interviewed in a variety of times and locations. The circumstances of the interviews did not seem to matter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878052658
• ISBN13: 9780878052653
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Gathers together twenty-two interviews and other "conversations" with Flannery O'Connor...

Rosemary Magee has gathered together for readers a compilation of twenty-two "conversations" with Flannery O'Connor -- interviews that originally appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines and journals. Her introduction describes O'Connor's responses to her interviewers and suggests that these responses illustrate and reflect her personality and interaction with others. Outlines O'Connor's varied approaches in dealing with reporters, participants of literary discussions, panels, and literary critics. Includes a chronology and index. Interviewers include: Harvey Breit, Celestine Sibley, Betsy Lochridge, Margaret Turner, Robert Donner, Richard Gilman, Katherine Fugin, Faye Rivard, Margaret Sieh, Betsy Fancher, Granville Hicks, Joel Wells, Frank Daniel, Richard P. Frisbie, Gerard E. Sherry, and C. Ross Mullins, Jr. Reader's may also be interested in reading Magee's discussion of the "preacher figure" in works by O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, William Faulker, William Styron and Carson McCullers in her dissertation, "'Ambassador of God': The Preacher in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction," completed at Emory University in 1982. R. Neil Scott / Middle Tennessee State University