Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it. The book was written with zest and, if possible, it should be read that way. It is a comic novel about a Christian malgré lui, and as such, very serious, for all comic novels that are any good must be about matters of life and death. Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for some readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence. For them, Hazel Motes's integrity lies in his trying with such vigor to get rid of the ragged figure who moves from tree to tree in the back of his mind. For the author, Hazel's integrity lies in his not being able to do so. Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.
(Preface to second edition, 1962)
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Flannery O'Connor had a certain genius. I don't think John Updike has, or Norman Mailer or William Styron, all of whom are talented, but they don't exceed themselves in any way. Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
Truman CapoteTag: norman-mailer william-s-burroughs flannery-o-connor john-updike william-styron
She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.
Ann NapolitanoTag: flannery-o-connor
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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: flannery-o-connor christian-writer the-incarnation
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...
Flannery O'ConnorTag: flannery-o-connor the-habit-of-being christian-thinker
I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.
“Okay,” she said, handing it back, “I’ll read it.”
What in Flannery O’Connor’s countenance met with Solitary’s approval?
“I dunno,” she said. “She looks kind of busted up, y’know? She ain’t too pretty. I trust her.
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Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.
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