September 28, 2008
Flannery Says
A rare audio file has surfaced, Flannery O’Connor gives a lecture one year before her death at 39. She gives this lecture at Notre Dame, about her writing, as well as reads her classic story A Good Man is Hard to Find. Very rare, and her Southern wit and charm are evident through and through.
update: the lecture she gives is also found in the book Mystery and Manners, I forgot to mention earlier.
- “Compassion is a word that sounds good in anybody’s mouth and which no book jacket can do without.” - Flannery O’Connor
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Amanda Mae, I’m activating a Savefile.com account this very instant.
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Oh Thank you thank you, Amanda Mae–this is great. I saved both files and will use them in my classes. What great timing, too–two of my classes will be reading and discussing “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” next week.
The experience of reading Flannery O’Connor for the very first time is such a privilege and a thrill. I wish I had something new of hers to read, but as of this writing, I have consumed every published scrap including Habit of Being and more. As a Sophomore I had this grand plan to take the train to Georgia and spend a happy January at the archives studying her papers and such. Though it’s mostly closed for graduate work only, I had mostly talked my way into it. Money put a damper on the whole scheme, as it usually does. She is just so witty and charming in her personal correspondence, I feel that a good perusal of Habit of Being and falling in love with her vim and vigour is necessary to not be horrified by her conclusions in her stories.