Nouvelles extraites du recueil Les braves gens ne courent pas les rues

Un heureux évènement ; la personne déplacée

This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy. Stories include:"A Good Man Is Hard to Find""The River""The Life You Save May Be Your Own""A Stroke of Good Fortune""A Temple of the Holy Ghost""The Artificial Nigger""A Circle in the Fire""A Late Encounter with the Enemy""Good Country People""The Displaced Person"©1955 Flannery O'Connor; 1954, 1953, 1948 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1983, 1981 by Regina O'Connor; renewed 1976 by Mrs. Edward F. O'Connor; (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction

L'Habitude d'être

A complete collection of Flannery O'Connor's stories. They explore the social and personal tensions of the American South - between youth and age, gentility and poverty, enlightment and bigotry.

Complete stories

In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South. This Library of America collection, the most comprehensive ever published, contains all of her novels and short-story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 witty, spirited, and revealing letters, twenty-one published here for the first time.Her fiction brilliantly explores the human obsession with seemingly banal things. It might be a new hat or clean hogs or, for Hazel Motes, hero of Wise Blood (1952), an automobile. "Nobody with a good car needs to be justified," Hazel assures himself while using its hood for a pulpit to preach his "Church Without Christ." As in O'Connor's subsequent work, the characters in this novel are driven to violence, even murder, and their strong vernacular endows them with the discomforting reality of next-door neighbors. "In order to recognize a freak," she remarks in one of her essays, "you have to have a conception of the whole man."In the title story of her first, dazzling collection of stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), the old grandmother discovers the comic irrelevance of good manners when she and her family meet up with the sinister Misfit, who claims there is "no pleasure but meanness." The terror of urban dislocation in "The Artificial Nigger," the bizarre baptism in "The River," or one-legged Hulga Hopewell's encounter with a Bible salesman in "Good Country People"--these startling events give readers the uneasy sense of mysteries about to be revealed.Her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away (1960), casts the shadow of the Old Testament across a landscape of backwoods shacks, modern towns, and empty highways. Caught between the prophetic fury of his great-uncle and the unrelenting rationalism of his uncle, fourteen-year-old Francis Tarwater undergoes a terrifying trial of faith when he is commanded to baptize his idiot cousin.The nine stories in Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) show O'Connor's powers at their height. The title story is a terrifying, heart-rending drama of familial and racial misunderstanding. "Revelation" and "The Enduring Chill" probe further into conflicts between parental figures and recalcitrant offspring, where as much tension is generated from quiet conversation as from the physical violence of gangsters and fanatics.

La sagesse dans le sang; Les braves gens ne courent pas les rues; Et ce sont les violents qui l'emportent; Mon mal vient de plus loin; Pourquoi ces nations en tumulte?

Dix nouvelles de la grande romancière américaine. Tout le monde prend vie en quelques secondes, et s'impose à nous : tueurs évadés du bagne, un général de cent quatre ans, une sourde-muette, une jeune docteur en philosophie à la jambe de bois, un Polonais que la haine des paysans américains accule à une mort affreuse, et, grouillant à l'arrière-plan, les petits fermiers, les nègres paresseux et finauds. Les braves gens ne courent pas les rues, telle est la morale assez pessimiste qui se dégage de ces récits. Flannery O'Connor possède, comme Dickens, le don de la caricature mais aussi un humour implacable, une fantaisie grinçante jusque dans le tragique et l'horreur.

Les braves gens ne courent pas les rues

Inédit à ce jour en français, ce Journal de prière de Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) est le témoignage d'une jeune femme de vingt ans qui prend simultanément conscience de sa vocation d'écrivain et des orientations tant esthétiques qu'éthiques qu'elle souhaite donner à celle-ci en raison directe de sa foi en une « force » qui, de son propre aveu, l'entourait depuis son enfance à Savannah, dans l'État de Géorgie.

Journal de prière

Flannery O'Connor, une figure unique et importante dans la tradition littéraire du Sud, était l'un des meilleurs écrivains du XXe siècle. Ce volume, contenant ses deux romans, nouvelles, essais et lettres, est la seule collection complète de ses œuvres.

Un heureux évènement ; la personne déplacée

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