sleeping.
The End
The Violent Bear It Away is a novel published in 1960 by American author Flannery O’Connor. It is the second and final novel that she published. The first chapter of the novel was published as the story “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead,” in the journal New World Writing, volume 8 in October 1955. It is the story of Francis Tarwater, a fourteen-year-old boy who is trying to escape his destiny: the life of a prophet. Like most of O’Connor’s stories, the novel is filled with religious themes and dark images, making it a classic example of Southern Gothic literature.
O’Connor observes all that happens in the novel’s timeline with an astonishing combination of irony and compassion, humor and pathos. The result is a novel whose range and depth reveal a brilliant and innovative writer acutely alert to where the sacred lives and to where it does not.
Flannery O’Conner was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her power.
