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.
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.
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".
A powerful and passionate tale is set on a southern army post --a human hell inhabited by a sexually disturbed officer, his animalistic wife, her lover, and the driven young private who forces the drama to its climax...
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation—the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of Sad Cafe —died of a stroke at the age of fifty before finishing this, her last manuscript. Editor Carlos L. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter .Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, and friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and the intense relationships of the important women in her life.
Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding
Includes four stories: "Wunderkind," "The Jockey," "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," and "A Tree, A Rock and A Cloud."
