Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Carson McCullers (1917-1967)

"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"

  • story of chaos wrought on a woman's life when her cousin Lymon Willis, a deformed but powerfully charismatic dwarf, enters her world
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • four lonely individuals who are marginalized misfits in their families/communities and who are each obsessed with a vision of his or her place in the world collect about a single deaf-mute with whom they share their deepest secrets
    • adolescent who desires to write symphonies
    • an itinerant drunk who believes he must organize poor laborers
    • black physician whose desire is to motivate his people to demand their rightful place in American society
    • cafe owner whose secret which is sexually ambiguous and who believes that the deaf Mr. Singer understands and validates his obsession

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