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A review by wdudley89
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
4.0
An excellent volume for anyone wanting to understand how O'Connor approaches writing, art, and religion. The essays are also plain fun to read. She has a great wit and writes without any pretense. It is so refreshing to encounter such intelligence devoid of jargon or arrogance.
"The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" are especially good.
Despite not being Catholic myself, I have great sympathy for a number of her views, including the presence of grace within nature, and the role of art in revealing the full truth of that which we experience all around us.
"The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" are especially good.
Despite not being Catholic myself, I have great sympathy for a number of her views, including the presence of grace within nature, and the role of art in revealing the full truth of that which we experience all around us.