The Violent Bear It Away in a Nutshell
Flannery O’Connor is probably best known for her short stories, but she also wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960). Her modus operandi as a writer was the employment of violence and the grotesque to shock her readers out of their somnambulant indifference to truth. Such violence and grotesqueness are never used gratuitously but are always pregnant with...