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A review by lindetiel
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
4.0
It is a difficult task to review an anthology of short stories. It is even harder to give one rating to the whole and complete collection of stories such as this one.
Flannery O'Connor is a remarkable writer who is able to breathe life into characters she creates. She presents harsh reality of American South in her stories, which is mixed with harsh and raw people who perceive world through deformed glass of their own lives and experience. Even though certain stories are not insightful and tend toward repetitiveness, there are those like A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Comforts of Home or The Partridge Festival that fully compensate the reading experience.
My personal favourite remains The Displaced Person - the story that could easily serve as a commentary to the current situation in Europe, despite it being published in 1954, when it were Europeans who fled territories scorched by World War II with all their horrors and tragedies diminished to one word spoken with contempt: 'refugees'.
These stories are just like the people inside them - raw, harsh and bitter. They are also a worthy read.
Flannery O'Connor is a remarkable writer who is able to breathe life into characters she creates. She presents harsh reality of American South in her stories, which is mixed with harsh and raw people who perceive world through deformed glass of their own lives and experience. Even though certain stories are not insightful and tend toward repetitiveness, there are those like A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Comforts of Home or The Partridge Festival that fully compensate the reading experience.
My personal favourite remains The Displaced Person - the story that could easily serve as a commentary to the current situation in Europe, despite it being published in 1954, when it were Europeans who fled territories scorched by World War II with all their horrors and tragedies diminished to one word spoken with contempt: 'refugees'.
These stories are just like the people inside them - raw, harsh and bitter. They are also a worthy read.