Flannery O'Connor

An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition...

Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a “blind” street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel...

Este volumen recoge por primera vez en castellano la esperada colección de muchas de las cartas inéditas de Flannery O'Connor, junto con las de grandes de la literatura como Walker Percy, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Giroux y el crítico de cine Stanley Kauffmann. Las cartas exploran temas como la creatividad, la fe, el sufrimiento y la escritura. Reunidas formas un fascinante retrato literario de estos amigos y de sus tribulaciones....