Flannery O'Connor, a Survival Kit

Œuvres

Au programme (voir B.O. E.N.) The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor. With an introduction by Robert Giroux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. L'édition indiquée au BO est identique: Londres: Faber & Faber, 1990. Ainsi que le précise Robert Giroux dans son introduction (xvi), les nouvelles figurent ici dans l'ordre chronologique de leur composition. Les nouvelles au programme sont "The Geranium" (1946) et deux recueils de nouvelles publiées à l'origine dans l'ordre suivant (pour l'histoire détaillée de la publication de chaque nouvelle, voir notes pp. 551-555 du recueil) : A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories( 1955 ). Le titre est celui d'un blues chanté par Bessie Smith ( enregistrement 27/09/1927, Columbia 14250-D) 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 Everything That Rises Must Converge ( 1965 ). Everything That Rises Must Converge Greenleaf A View of the Woods The Enduring Chill The Comforts of Home The Lame Shall Enter First Revelation Parker's Back Judgement Day (AmE spelling: Judgment Day) photo J. Pothier

Wise Blood. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1952.

A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories. New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1955.

The Violent Bear It Away (1960 ).

Everything That Rises Must Converge. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1965.

*Fitzgerald, Robert and Fitzgerald, Sally (editors). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969

Fitzgerald, Sally (editor). The Habit of Being. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979

*Sally Fitzgerald, ed. O'Connor's Collected Works. Library of America, 1988. [Contains the fiction, some occasional prose, and more than 250 letters written between 1948 and 1964].

Traduction: La Sagesse dans le sang [romans et nouvelles complets] Préface de Roger Grenier.Gallimard, Biblos : 1991 (974 pp.).

Biographie / bibliographie / introduction générale

Bleikasten, André. Flannery O’Connor. Belin, voix américaines. A paraître, oct. 2004.

Brisac, Geneviève. Loin du Paradis: Flannery O'Connor. Paris: Gallimard, 1991.

Pothier, Jacques. Synthèse d'une oeuvre:les nouvelles de Flannery O'Connor*. Editions de l'Université de Versailles St Quentin / Editions du Temps, oct. 2004. ISBN 2-84274-302-4, 14,5 €. Achetez-le sur amazon.fr ou à la fnac.

Critique: ouvrages

**Asals, Frederick. Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1982.

*Frederick Asals, ed. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1993. [Introduction, background, text of the story, ten essays, bibliography]

* Delta 2 « Flannery O’Connor et le réalisme des lointains » (Mars 1976). - Montpellier : Université Paul Valéry, 1976. - 168 p.

*Giannone, Richard. Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Rpt. New York: Fordham UP, 1999.

*Gordon, Sarah Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. reviewed by W. A. Sessions

Grimshaw, James A., Jr. The Flannery O'Connor Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

*Hardy, Donald W. Narrating Knowledge in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction: A linguistic approach to the novels and short stories of Flannery O'Connor. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

*Hurley, Jennifer A., (editor). Readings on Flannery O'Connor. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2001.[bonne anthologie critique récente]

*Kessler, Edward. Flannery O'Connor and the Language of Apocalypse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Oates, Joyce Carol. New Haven, New Earth: the Visionary Experience in Literature. New York, NY: Vanguard, 1974. [Includes “The Visionary Art of  Flannery O’Connor,” 141-176, also in Bloom, Modern Critical Views]

*Westarp, Karl Heinz Precision and Depth: In Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories Aarhus Universitetsforlag (juin 2002, 142 pp., index) [Synthèse sur la technique d'écriture, appuyée sur l'étude des manuscrits, en particulier de "Judgment Day" et "Parker's Back"]

*Whitt, Margaret Earley. Understanding Flannery O'Connor. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

*Wood, Ralph C. The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.

*-----.  Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004

Sélection d’articles

Carver, Raymond. “On Writing“, 1981; Fires (London: Picador, 1985), 22-27.

Hawkes, John. "Flannery O'Connor's Devil." Sewanee Review 70.3 (Summer 1962): 395-407.

Kahane, Claire. “The Artificial Niggers.” The Massachusetts Review19.1 (1978): 183-198. [ +

“Judgment Day”]

Katz, Claire. “Flannery O'Connor’s Rage of Vision.” American Literature 46.1 (1974): 54-67.

Mellard, James M. “Flannery O’Connor’s Others: Freud, Lacan, and the Unconscious.” American Literature 61.4 (1989); 625-43.

Montgomery, Marion. “O’Connor and Teilhard de Chardin: The Problem of Evil.” Renascence 22.1 (1969): 34-42.

*Walker, Alice. “Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor” Ms. 4.6 (déc. 1975), 77-79; 102-106. Repris dans Louise Westling, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 42-59.Repris dans Hurley, ed.sous le titre "The First Great Modern Writer form the South".

Weinstein, Philip M. "'Coming unalone': Gesture and Gestation in Faulkner and O'Connor." In Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, ed. Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity (Tübingen, Francke Verlag, 1993), 262-275.

Shaw, Mary Neff. ‘The Artificial Nigger’: A Dialogical Narrative” (Rath, Sura P. and Shaw, Mary Neff, eds. Flannery O'Connor: New Perspectives. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 139-151.

Giannone, Richard. “Displacing Gender: Flannery O’Connor’s View from the Woods” (in Rath, Sura P. and Shaw, Mary Neff, eds. Flannery O'Connor: New Perspectives. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 73-95.

Ressources internet

The Comforts of Home: A Repository of Flannery O’Connor Information http://mediaspecialist.org/index.html  . Bibliographie commentée (choix d’articles et ouvrages), essais en ligne, liens…

The Flannery 0’Connor collection at GC & SU : http://library.gcsu.edu/~sc/foc.html à Georgia College & State University, Russell Library. Bibliographie, liens, liste de diffusion archivée

Internet Public Library: Online literary Criciticism Collection - Flannery O'Connor. 

Page des journées d'études organisées sur le programme O'Connor, avec liens vers les textes mis en ligne.

Page Flannery O'Connor à la Fondation Faulkner (Rennes II): liste des personnages, jugements par John Hawkes, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, Tawni O'Dell.