Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher names Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath. In an ironic...
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher names Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Hazel Motes founds the The Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood," who leads him to a mummified holy child, and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Hazel's existential struggles. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most consuming characters in modern fiction.
"Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it. The book was written with zest and, if possible, it should be read that way. It is a comic novel ab...
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0 有用 hpy 2019-04-30 01:09:33
So many disjointed images that resonate with those in the day of the locust
0 有用 梁叆叇 2024-01-08 13:09:47 美国
So strange a story
1 有用 拉维克 2018-02-19 21:20:46
Amazing! 看到最后忍不住惊声尖叫的好! 有种人类文明塌陷后的荒凉感,荒原磷火,伴随着无声嚣叫,庸俗地比较似蒙克的《呐喊》,虽然小说最重要的意象是另一个感官,不能够剧透。小说倒数第二章结尾写landlady的地方简直是神品。读完这本书,忍不住又想去看圣经。今年怎么也该完结掉它。😠
1 有用 藕粽 2017-01-17 04:09:34
一群疯子的故事居然越看越好看
0 有用 蒜松耳朵 2014-09-04 14:01:02
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