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Rezumat: Flannery O’Connor’s name is representative for the Southern American literary universe of the twentieth century. And this is owed to the bewildering craft of capturing the spirit of the South, of her homeland. Her work seizes the attention of the reading public through astonishing and shocking representations of reality. The religious, Christian approach towards life is an illustrative feature of her writings. What is more, it can be said that her works are endowed with cathartic ends in the sense that she offers a poignant, ruthless, sometimes appalling image of reality, of the world to her readers.
Romanian critics like Virgil Stanciu, Ştefan Stoenescu and Irina Adăscăliţei Chirica have showed special interest to this Southern American writer. Virgil Stanciu in his work Orientări în literatura sudului American manages to shed light on the true meaning and message of Flannery O’Connor’s writings. He emphasizes the fact that she was a “catholic novelist” who lived in a protestant region and insists on the strong relation that exists between O’Connor’s fiction and reality. Moreover, in this work he emphasizes the deterministic aspect of the social, regional context that left an indisputable mark on her works. Flannery O’Connor has been sometimes criticized for her bluntness and shocking manner of describing violence, of emphasizing the process of annihilation that the Southern society and the traditional values were going through. However, her acknowledged literary and cultural contribution is an indisputable fact. According to Virgil Stanciu and the aforementioned work, Flannery O’Connor’s novels and short stories do not step out from the chronological and psychological conventions; she does not appeal to any other innovative techniques in what concerns these aspects. Christian morals and precepts permeate her writings, thing which is in perfect agreement with the essential aspect of the southern literary tradition.
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