Why Flannery O'Connor was a GENIUS! w/ Fr. Damian Ference
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Fr. Damain Ference tells Matt Fradd why he thinks Flannery O'Connor's fiction is good. From character development to story themes Father talks about how her faith made her a great author.
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I just wanted to say that i hope everyone is having a blessed day!
Just ordered her collected works for summer read
She is worth reading. Just pace yourself. Reading her too long can be draining.
Awesome! Enjoy it!
I bought it when Christopher West had a guest on about her! So worth it! But prepare yourself for her racial views. It reflects her upbringing in the Jim Crow South very strongly! However her struggle with racism as a Catholic is actually fascinating and later in life she did admit that Martin Luther King Jr was just a man doing what he had to do. The experience of sharing the classroom with black students at ISU had a major effect on her that started her questioning things.
I've been teaching O'Connor at the end of every school year for 10 years. Looking forward to her fiction is how I make it through every school year. Not even kidding! 😂
I loved her short stories in college.
Both she and her friend (and in some ways her inverse) Katherine Anne Porter both could frame amazingly clear characters in very short spaces
Matt, have you ever heard of Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo? He would be amazing to have on your show! Just a wonderfully faithful and funny Catholic Greek Melkite priest.
Just read "Wise Blood" last week and couldn't put it down... because I was hoping it would get to a point where I could figure out what the characters were up to.
Didn't reach that point.
Yes the characters were broken but I wasn't seeing where the light was breaking through.
I didn’t get it at first but it requires another read. If i’m correct, the idea of the book confronts false piety with true piety, like one can’t claim to believe something and act contrary to that belief (think of Hawks). Faith is a radical act that can’t be contradicted, it’s either you’re all in or you’re all out.
Genius as a title is nothing but pride and vanity. The ONLY title we must seek, is to be faithfull, obedient and fearful of our LORD and SAVIOR. No poetry is better than the Psalms, no writing greater than the gospel, and yet they are far from genius, because our LORD shows such charity to dumb HIS genius down for our benefit. The opposite of pride and vanity. Praised be JESUS.