>Name a better American or Catholic author than Flannery O'Connor

>>8810108
>Or

Oh come on. Get lost.

>Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens

>>8810108
shakespeare
joyce
endo
cather
gaddis
milton
Wittgenstein
God

checkmate

>>8810134

>Shakespeare
>Catholic

Nice try

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>>8810108
Well.... I dunno. I'm second to few in my appreciation of FOC, but I think her remark about Faulkner reflected, with comic exaggeration, a reasonably just judgment of their respective talents: "The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down."

That said, I think Thomas Merton's remark is just as reasonable. “When I read Flannery," he said, "I don’t think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, or Sarte, but rather of someone like Sophocles…for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man’s fall and his dishonor.”

>>8810156

Only the Greek Tragedians wrote of hubris and the follies of man as well as Flannery O'Connor did.

there are better american / catholic authors, but she might be the best american catholic author

>>8810173

Honestly, I would have to put it to a toss-up between O'Connor and Bishop Sheen. O'Connor makes for better reading material, but Bishop Sheen is more of a purely theological look into Catholicism, which I enjoy.

Probably still put Flannery on top though.

William Gaddis is both American and Catholic

>>8810108
>American
Machado de Assis
>Catholic
W.B. Yeats

>>8810213
Yeats wasn't Catholic.

>>8810108
Luther

>>8810108
Gene Wolfe :^)

By the bye, and as an aside, the *notes* in the Library of America edition of Flannery have much interesting detail, including interesting biographical detail, e.g., the brief, stillborn romance that was part of the inspiration for Good Country People

>>8810120
lol

>>8810108
im taking an american catholic fictions class right now at fordham university and idk. i skimmed through her shit and didnt like it. i did like final payments by mary gordon. i did like andre dubus. but there's better literature out there. catholic too.

goat recent catholic writer: chesterton. belloc is good too. evelyn waugh.

>>8810108
Gene Wolfe