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Original Title:	Three by Flannery O'Connor
Edition Language:	English

3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 4.31 | 1773 Users | 97 Reviews

Particularize Containing Books 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood

Title	:	3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood
Author	:	Flannery O'Connor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	August 21st 1986 by Signet Classics (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. Literature. American. Southern. Novels. Literary Fiction

Commentary Concering Books 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor is a diminutive, sprite-like woman who writes some of the most powerful fiction (of its type) that I have ever read. If you like Faulkner, you will most likely enjoy O'Connor's work as well. It is a kind of theater of the macabre, southern, holy, and surreal all at once. The characters arrive in the story as if in a fever dream, emerging from some faint mist that she has shrouded them in so that they may pop out at just the right moment; they take on their lives fully-formed, portraying real people with extraordinary personal problems embedded deep in their psyche. O'Connor's action takes place deep in the minds and beliefs of her characters, with their thoughts boiling out into the area around them to wreck havoc. I have seen stills from a movie created about Wise Blood; the characters look like they fell out of a Magritte painting, which I think is an apt tone to give to them. There isn't much action in the two main novels in this collection (at least not in the traditional sense of action), but the work still draws you in nonetheless. With that in mind, I believe that O'Connor should be read for one of two reasons (though you can get a casual reading pleasure from them both as well): 1) To study, digest, and think about. Her work is incredibly complicated, with symbolic set pieces strewn throughout. Quite frankly, when I finished a recent reread of Wise Blood, I felt like I needed to sit and talk about it for an hour with other readers just to scratch the surface of the meaning. The same could be said of The Violent Bear it Away--each of these two novels captures your (can I call it this?) critical-thinking attention and will not let it go. 2) As a writer. Just as Faulkner, Joyce, and Woolf should be read by serious writers in order to explore both their style and the ways in which they bend and break the rules of language, so too should O'Connor be studied for the ways in which she extrapolates character in the simplest of beliefs. O'Connor has a way of stretching these beliefs into monstrous proportions, pulling them like taffy to find all the little nuances that lie within. As a writer, I found it fascinating that she could pull and pull on a character like that, finding new truths hiding deep within that she would then share with the reader. Though in The Violent Bear it Away it gets a bit tiresome at in the first 30 pages, the rest of the two main novels in this collection are to be studied and admired for their scope. The Signet edition of O'Connor's work is a steal. For less than ten dollars (when I bought it) you can get two of her novels, plus a collection of short stories.

Rating Containing Books 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood

Ratings: 4.31 From 1773 Users | 97 Reviews

Critique Containing Books 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood

Started last night a bit. I haven't read that much by FOC but what I did read was cherce! I assume this will be awesome...I'm still reading the none-too-interesting introduction which goes on and on. Plus... I've been shoveling like a machine the past few days. Getting worn out by evening time and having a hard time focusing on the writing! More snow due tonight and tomorrow!Well... I skipped through that pesky, boring intro and got right to the story(Wise Blood) reminds me of "The Artificial

Flannery OConnors writing feels like it was originally written in Russian but translated into English by Constance Garnett. Quick-notes: Wiseblood: A comic novel that is simultaneously surreal and terrifying. There are scenes and images in here that will never leave me. You have to keep telling yourself this is a parody of a certain type of blind religious conviction. At least I think it is. The Violent Bear it Away: My favorite piece out of the three. Again, disturbing religious extremism. What

A style of writing--no, of literature all her own. This set of three of her stories is a good introduction to her world.

Wise Blood: you don't get any sense of what happened to the main character during the war to turn him so strongly against religion, but that's my only real complaint. His Church Without Christ is intriguing, especially considering that he isn't willing himself to push it to the logical conclusion. It's interesting/funny, the way he interacts with the other dude and the preacher and the preacher's daughter (although I wish you had a better sense from the beginning of how old she is because when

I really enjoyed these short stories by O'Connor. She really knew how to tell a story, to develop character, and to prove a point in a short amount of time. Her writing draws me in and is oddly suspenseful. I loved reading this part of the book. The novels are good, but I gave the book 4 stars for the third part of the collection. As much as I love O'Connor, reading her in short story form is all I can handle. Her novels are so intense and heady in a way that the stories avoid being since

So first off, thanks to Ethan for giving me this collection. What a guy!I really loved reading these. If you're looking for more about Wiseblood, I did a separate review of that.Wiseblood - Probably my favorite out of the three and I good start for new readers of O'Connor. The main character is griping and ultimately the story resolves in that perfect O'Connor Southern Gothic way.The Violent Beat It Away - Also very good, but perhaps a little slow at parts. Even saying that is being a little too

Seriously -- wow! O'Connor is fabulous. I've read her short stories before, you know since high school and through college and all of that, and they were good then, too. This time, though, reading for pleasure for the third or fourth time, I was amazed. Such well-written stories and short novels, beautiful, funny, sinister, always with some surprising twist. Even when I know what'll happen it's surprising. An author I love more and will have to return to again and again.