Carson McCullers, autrice américaine, est célébrée pour sa fiction, souvent qualifiée de Southern Gothic, qui explore en profondeur l'isolement spirituel des inadaptés et des parias du Sud. Son œuvre capture magistralement les complexités de la psyché humaine, abordant des thèmes de solitude et d'amour non partagé. Bien que certains catégorisent son style comme du réalisme sudiste, il puise son inspiration dans le réalisme russe, démontrant une profonde compréhension de la fragilité humaine et des luttes des marginalisés. La voix distinctive de McCullers et ses aperçus profonds sur la condition humaine solidifient son importance littéraire.
Dans une petite ville poussiéreuse du sud des Etats-Unis, des personnages s'efforcent désespérément d'échapper à leur solitude et gravitent autour de la figure centrale du sourd-muet Singer. Parmi eux apparaît la figure adolescente de Mick, pauvre et passionnée de musique, sorte de sœur jumelle de Carson McCullers.
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États-Unis, Géorgie. Deux hommes - un pharmacien rongé par une maladie incurable et un vieux juge tenaillé par le souvenir du Sud d'autrefois - font route vers la mort. Leurs solitudes respectives trouvent un écho dans celles de deux adolescents, l'un blanc, l'autre noir, liés par une affection mutuelle, mais dangereusement ambivalente.
Including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Café
At the height of her literary career, Carson McCullers showcases her exceptional talent in short fiction, blending her skills as a novelist, dramatist, and poet. Her work reflects deep emotional insight and explores complex themes of loneliness, identity, and the human experience, captivating readers with her unique narrative style and rich character development.
"Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" and "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud." as well as her previously uncollected story about the civil rights movement, "The March"; her award-winning Broadway play The Member of the Wedding and the unpublished teleplay The Sojourner; twenty-two essays; and the revealing unfinished memoir Illumination and Night Glare. This wide-ranging gathering of shorter works reveals new depths and dimensions of the writer whom V.S. Pritchett praised for her "courageous imagination--one that is bold enough to consider the terrible in human nature without loss of nerve, calm, dignity, or love.""--Dust jacket
A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of The Mute, which became her novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.
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His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility -- of a man toward his own livingness".
