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...backed wooden chair, altogether by hand, just as he learned from his own father. Photos, diagrams and his taped words capture the craft completely. They also catch the man. A collection of hunting stories grows taller and taller, ending of course with bear; it is capped by old Minyard Conner's scandalous yarn of how his granddaddy killed the bear that caught him with his britches down...
Whatever his reasons, his elucidations of Agee through his poetry are sound. He emphasizes the poet's sense of history, his demi-longing after death, his impulse to celebration and ritual, and his sense of Original Sin. Where Flannery O'Conner, a contemporary of Agee's and a fellow Southerner and writer, was trapped and finally suffocated by a sense of sin, determinism made Agee all the more athletic in his insistence on love. "From the evidence of his poetry," says Presler, "it seems safe to say that the condition of love--between persons, of nature, as action in life...
...flux of difficulty and mastery in The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Conner come into a fine balance in "A Good Man is Hard to Find". There can be no regret that she spent a lifetime boning up for such a right moment...
...much are they reduced. Impaled on the exactitude of their depiction, her characters struggle against the fascism of her control. It is the sense of this conflict that leads me to the fury and violence and desire for retribution that I read in the heart of Flannery O'Conner. It is the Old Testament universe of emotion and the New Testament solution that are the irreconcilable poles of her world. This irreconcilability makes for the discomfort and the frustration of her stories. It is not Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church which finally rule Flannery O'Conner's imagination...
...should not be difficult to accept that it is the primitive in us that goes to meet the primitive in Flannery O'Conner, or that the setting for this atavism is our own South. What should frighten us is that her tribal warfare scenarios find their metaphors in the passion play of Mary and Jesus. Flannery O'Conner's most telling achievement is her derision of the hemophilia of our self-images. She points out that if violence kills, it also transfigures...