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: Notes from the (Legal) Underground

By Evan Schaeffer

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RECOMMENDED READING . . . Terry Teachout on Flannery O'Connor in Commentary (3/09): "Believing in Flannery O'Connor." Representative quote--

[H]er reputation rests in part on a persistent misunderstanding. Unlike most of the other major American novelists of the 20th century, O?Connor wrote not as a more or less secular humanist but as a believer, a rigorously orthodox Roman Catholic. Her fiction was permeated with religious language and symbolism, and its underlying intent was in many cases specifically spiritual. Yet most of O?Connor?s early critics failed to grasp her intentions, and even now many younger readers are ignorant of the true meaning of her work.

Teachout's essay also includes some discussion of the ways Brad Gooch's recent biography, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O?Connor, may be important in assessing O'Connors work.

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).