Author: CARSON MCCULLERS
Translator: Younghee Chang
Publisher: Yeollimwon
148 pages.
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About This Book
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was
instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The
novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.
"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through an
accumulation of images and musically repeated phrases, the singularity of
experience, not to pass judgment on it." McCullers effortlessly conveyed the raw
anguish of her characters and the weird beauty of their perceptions. Set in
small Georgia towns that are at once precisely observed and mythically resonant,
McCullers' novels explore the strange, sometimes grotesque inner lives of
characters who are often marginal and misunderstood. Above all, McCullers
possessed an unmatched ability to capture the bewilderment and fragile wonder of
adolescence.
In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the haunted
confessions of an itinerant worker, a young girl, a black doctor, and the
widowed owner of a small-town café. Two shorter works, Reflections in a Golden
Eye (1941) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), use melodramatic scenarios and
freakish characters to explore the disfiguring violence of desire. The Member of
the Wedding (1946), on which the play and film were based, tells of a young
girl's fascination with her brother's wedding and is perhaps McCullers' most
moving and accomplished novel. In Clock Without Hands (1960), the story of a
terminally ill druggist, McCullers produces some of her most forceful and
indignant social criticism.
---by Carlos Dews.
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