Could Flannery O’Connor’s discovery apply also to real life?
I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace. Their heads are so hard that almost nothing else will do the work. This idea, that reality is something to which we must be returned at considerable cost, is one which is seldom understood by the casual reader.
(Quoted from page 49 of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom. Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009.)
For a brief biography of Flannery O’Connor, click here. For images of and relating to Flannery O’Connor, click here. For a brief biography of Harold Bloom, click here.
I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace. Their heads are so hard that almost nothing else will do the work. This idea, that reality is something to which we must be returned at considerable cost, is one which is seldom understood by the casual reader.
(Quoted from page 49 of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Harold Bloom. Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009.)
For a brief biography of Flannery O’Connor, click here. For images of and relating to Flannery O’Connor, click here. For a brief biography of Harold Bloom, click here.
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