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Not too sure about that one

Happy birthday Carson McCullers!

say something nice about her

>loneliness... loneliness is... le bad!

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>>20511841
You're stupid.

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>>20196189
>Gertrude Stein
>Flannery O’Connor
>Virginia Woolf
nice b8

uwu

>reads the entire works of Carson McCullers

>>19958786
Categorically wrong. It's actually the cutest and my favourite hairstyle.

>>19722675
What about a triple blind date and winning jackpot cutie McCullers. I think I'd be proposing before the main course arrived desu.

>>19439963
Yeah that's me, but the only meme is people calling me tranny and telling me to take meds when I try to have good faith discussions. The Rooney thread was also me, but I'm not so enthusiastic about her, but its is funny, I get the same sort of responses with her as I do with McCullers.

And my name isn't Pete as well lol.

>>19412505
>or incredibly tender like The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

I love that book and I have never found anything that comes close but The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath made me feel a similar way when I read it.

Also if you did like Carson McCullers you should take a look at some of her other novels, The Member of the Wedding is great and equally as comfy, and also The Ballad of the Sad Cafe might be more appropriate since its all about unrequited love and dysfunctional relationships, however, I didn't find it particularly relieving when I was going through a breakup so don't expect too much if you do go for it, but is a nice short read to occupy your mind anyhow.

My vote goes to Carson obvs, O'Connor was exposed as a poor writer by her poor attempt at the novel, you can't make much of a case with a collection of 30 page works compared to the works of McCullers. Carson managed to actually complete coherent novels that weren't entirely dependent on the Bible for its themes and inspiration and actually developed her own style instead of ripping it from her predecessors. Carson's characters were more compelling and her plot lines more interesting, she was consistent with this quality across all her novels bar maybe Clock Without Hands whereas O'Connor couldn't manage it in a single one.

>>19356828
>O'Connor truly suffered, she had Lupus and died young.
McCullers had rheumatic fever when she was a teenager and had a bunch of strokes in her 20's, it's not a competition, but if it were, Carson suffered more.

>Her work is much darker,
Not really anon, again, I don't care to rank them in this aspect but not a single one of McCullers' novels had a happy ending. McCullers wrote with a constant theme of sadness and isolation across all of her novels, I can't even remember the ending to Wise Blood it was so forgettable but I felt no strong emotion either way, happy or sad, which I think speaks to the the quality of the 'darkness' in it.

>Carson McCullers was kind of a leach
Wrong. McCullers was active before O'Connor, she couldn't leach of a words that hadn't been written yet, O'Connor took inspiration from Carson.

>one trick pony
Flannery 'known for short stories' O'Connor. She had a very average novel and the rest is short stories, the cheek of you calling McCullers one-trick

>is more autobiographical than you would expect
Maybe you are thinking of Frankie in The Member of the Wedding but I don't think Mick resembled Carson that much at all. THIALH is allegorical so she is supposed to represent the average post war American girl.

>her stories are somewhat enigmatic.
They might be on the surface but all her questions can be answered in the Bible. She was held back by her Religion, and I don't care for her takes on capitalism in relation to idolatry because I'm not Catholic and I don't think it's revolutionary to criticism materialism either, there are other writers who have done it better and not in such a limited capacity as well. And anything enigmatic in her work I don't think is worth solving, Wise Blood is a boring novel about boring people and I don't care to look further into it because I bet any subtext there is boring too.

Carson McCullers and Sylvia Plath and don't bother with Faggery O'Connor either unless your going for a tradcath larp but I doubt it since you met the girl on tinder.

>>19318901
She's doing fine thanks butters, you can leave her alone now.

y u bait me out like tht ;))???

For me it's a tie between Cutie McCullers (pre-stroke)

>>19212566
Yeah that was me and I looked into it a bit but I'm sick of being in school and there's not much I would want to study anyway. I had a pretty rough 3rd year and I want to get as far away from that part of my life as possible because it made me a little ill and I don't think I could stomach it all over again.

Someone add this cutie onto like level 4 or 5 please

>>19202833
>He's not Carson pilled
ngmi

>>19202854
I think it's more soulful to have a messy room since it's my natural state. It is organised how I like, my mess is intentional.

>>19202856
Faggot reply.

>>19154182
Shut up, I have been in threads about McCullers and the same brain dead faggot has always been there with his shit takes to piss me off and he never quits with it either, he always has to keep digging himself in with shit take after shit take.

>That's the dumbest thing I've ever read and I've read the member of a wedding.

Classic /lit/, a bad opinion with no substantiation at all. Please tell me why you thought this, I want everyone to see how shallow your reading is.

>>19146202
Thanks for reading. It's a shame you have to phrase your posts with bait to get any discussion going on this board, but I enjoyed writing it anyway.

>>19128478
I'm just a naturally lucky person

also the reflections in a golden eye

Why does she make /lit/ seethe so much?