Jesus & Peacocks

(Flannery's typewriter at Andalusia, March 2010)

Introduction: This semester I am taking a Flannery O’Connor literature class, and I plan to comment on all of the stories I read. We are also reading her two novels, and if I finish the stories we aren't reading for class on my own, I will be able to say that I've read all of her work. (January 2011)

PROGRESS:

Novels Read: Wise Blood, and The Violent Bear It Away

From her MFA Thesis:
"The Crop" **
"The Turkey"

From A Good Man is Hard to Find:
"A Stroke of Good Fortune" **
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"A Late Encounter with the Enemy" **
"The Life You Save May be Your Own"
"The River"
"A Circle in the Fire"
"The Displaced Person"
"A Temple of the Holy Ghost" **
"The Artificial Nigger"
"Good Country People"

From Everything That Rises Must Converge:
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"
"Greenleaf" **
"A View of the Woods"
"The Comforts of Home" **
"The Lame Shall Enter First"
"The Enduring Chill"
"Parker's Back" **
"Revelation"
"Judgement Day"

In The Complete Stories:
"The Patridge Family" **
"Why Do the Heathen Rage?" **

Revised for her Novels:(I haven't read these yet)
"The Peeler" (WB)
"The Heart of the Park" (WB)
"Enoch and the Gorilla" (WB)
"You Can't be Any Poorer Than Dead" (TVBA)

...So that is that. Maybe I will "revisit" the stories I really loved...but for now they only get **.

~~J