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 Format: Hardcover, 287 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252025288
Release Date: Jan 5, 1999
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"Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the last thirteen years of her life on the family farm in rural Georgia, which she claimed was accessible "only by bus or buzzard." During this productive, solitary time she became increasingly fascinated by fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment." "In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics, a bond that stemmed from her faith as well as her own isolation and physical suffering from lupus, and the ways in which their strange, still voices illuminate her fiction. Distinguishing among various desert calls summoning O'Connor's protagonists to solitude and renunciation, Giannone shows how these characters live out a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of grappling with their demons and drawing closer to God.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Abbreviations | | | 1 | The Hermit Novelist | 1 | | 2 | Hazel Motes and the Desert Tradition | 31 | | 3 | Sporting with Demons | 65 | | 4 | Entering a Strange Country | 90 | | 5 | The Prophet and the Word in the Desert | 144 | | 6 | Acedia and Penthos | 170 | | 7 | Vision and Vice | 204 | | 8 | The Power of Exile | 236 | | Works Cited | 275 | | Index | 281 |
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