L'ecriture Catholique de Flannery O'Connor
L'ecriture Catholique de Flannery O'Connor
L'ecriture Catholique de Flannery O'Connor
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L'ecriture catholique
de Flannery O'Connor
PAR
Maurice LfiVY *
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? When you write fiction, you both reveal and
obscure the things you know best or feel most
concerned about. ?
F. O'Connor.
(1) ? Mrs. Shortley looked at the priest and was reminded that these people
did not have an advanced religion. There was no telling what all they believed
since none of the foolishness had been reformed out of it. ? ? The Displaced
Person ?, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, New York (Image Books), 1970, p. 189
et passim.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR 127
(2) ? The Violent Bear It Away ?, Three By Flannery O'Connor, New York
(Signet Books), 1960, p. 381.
(3) Ibid., p. 382.
(4) ? The River ?, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, ed. cit., p. 40.
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12S FLANNERY O'CONNOR
(5) ? One morning he saw to his joy a finger of fire coming out of [the sun]
and before he could turn, before he could shout, the finger had touched him and
the destruction he had been waiting for had fallen in his own brain and his own
body. His blood had been burned dry and not the blood of the world >. The
Violent Bear It Away ?, Three By Flannery O'Connor, ed. cit, p. 306.
(6) Harry/Bevel dans ? The River ? et Bishop dans The Violent Bear it
Away.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR 129
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130 FLANNERY O'CONNOR
(8) ? All during the story ? Good Country People > the wooden leg is growing
in importance. And thus when the Bible salesman steals it, he is stealing a great
deal more than the wooden leg. > The Added Dimension : the Art and Mind of
Flannery O'Connor, ed. M. J. Friedman & L.A. Lawson, Fordham University
Press, 1966, p. 259.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR 131
(9) ? The Life You Save May Be Your Own ?, A Good Man Is Hard To Find,
op. cit., p. 54.
(10) ? A Temple Of The Holy Ghost ?, ibid* p. 97.
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132 FLANNERY O'CONNOR
(11) Cf. ses propos sur les symboles in The Added Dimension, op. cit, p. 259.
(12) ? A Good Man Is Hard To Find ?, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, ed. cit.,
p. 29.
(13) ? The Artificial Nigger ?, ibid., p. 122.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR 133
? It was the face of the new misery she felt, but on her mother
it looked old and it looked as if it might have belonged to any
body, a Negro or a European or to Powell himself ? (15).
(14) ? The Life You Save May Be Your Own ?, ibid., p. 66.
(15) ? A Circle In The Fire ?, ibid., p. 146.
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