FLANNERY | Official Trailer | New Documentary | Flannery O'Connor

one critic called her perhaps the most naturally gifted of American novelists Flannery O'Connor when demand is hard to find wise blood mystery and mama knows I think that rises must converge he's one of the best writers of the 20th century I've read everything that she's written final Connor is one of the writers least afraid to look at the darkness we've had an accident the children screamed and frenzy of delight but nobody's killed do you started with this apartment you think it's this bitter old alcoholic who's writing he's really funny dark stories and then you find out she's a woman and that she's devoutly religious Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah Georgia into an Irish Catholic community you get someone who's writing out of a specific time Pacific set of manners what she found was mystery I think that a serious fiction writer described in action only a nautical the ordinance how was she going to find the stories that she knows she needs to tell and how is she going to tell them I do not want to be lonely all my life but people only make us lonely or by reminding us of God it's unbelievable she was so sick she'd never stop writing it was the illness that made her the writer that she is I feel that the grotesque quality of my own work is intensified by the fact that I'm a servant and a Catholic growing up she's really funny she's often funny in a very dire away she ignored that disapproval of her religion she ignore the disapproval of her fiction she just saw the mystery of the craziness [Music]

Channel: Long Distance Productions

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Id: WwBBlgZ8LRc

Length: 1min 55sec (115 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020