Carson Mccullers
Carson McCullers is often mentioned in one breath with the preeminent figures of Southern Literature. She is ranked among the most respected writers, often compared with William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. McCullers left the Georgia and the South at 17 and lived mainly in New York and Paris for all her adult life, yet her settings and characters are frequently Southern. She is very special, one of the American’s superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlines the human condition.
Born Lula Carson Smith, on 19 February, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, as the daughter of a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweler of French Hugenot extraction, she moved to New York at seventeen to study piano but ended up studying creative writing at Columbia and NYU instead. There she published her first story in 1936, and in 1937, married Reeves McCullers, a serviceman and aspiring writer. They moved to North Carolina, living there for two years. Carson McCullers’ adult life was a mixture of emotional unhappiness and bad health, but with luminous talent she drew upon her empathy and experience to compose resonant, ballad-like stories about the inner lives of marginal, often physically scarred characters who were tormented by loneliness.
Her major works includes the novels:” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), “Reflection in a Golden eye” (1942), “The Ballad of the Sad Café” (1943), “The Member of the Wedding” (1946), “Clock Without Hands” (1961), some short stories and plays.
Although McCullers’s oeuvre is often described as “Southern Gothic,” she produced her famous works after leaving the South. Her eccentric characters suffer from loneliness that is interpreted with deep empathy.
Carson McCullers’ classic novel The “Member of the Wedding” is a poignant story of early adolescent angst and the need to belong. It evokes
Born Lula Carson Smith, on 19 February, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, as the daughter of a well-to-do watchmaker and jeweler of French Hugenot extraction, she moved to New York at seventeen to study piano but ended up studying creative writing at Columbia and NYU instead. There she published her first story in 1936, and in 1937, married Reeves McCullers, a serviceman and aspiring writer. They moved to North Carolina, living there for two years. Carson McCullers’ adult life was a mixture of emotional unhappiness and bad health, but with luminous talent she drew upon her empathy and experience to compose resonant, ballad-like stories about the inner lives of marginal, often physically scarred characters who were tormented by loneliness.
Her major works includes the novels:” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940), “Reflection in a Golden eye” (1942), “The Ballad of the Sad Café” (1943), “The Member of the Wedding” (1946), “Clock Without Hands” (1961), some short stories and plays.
Although McCullers’s oeuvre is often described as “Southern Gothic,” she produced her famous works after leaving the South. Her eccentric characters suffer from loneliness that is interpreted with deep empathy.
Carson McCullers’ classic novel The “Member of the Wedding” is a poignant story of early adolescent angst and the need to belong. It evokes