Before the Sun Has Set

Before the Sun Has Set

Retribution in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

by John Darretta

147 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780820481661
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This detailed analysis of the theme of retribution is a key to understanding the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. An idea central to the Bible, Dante, and Chaucer - one is paid back for the evil one does or for failure to do good - retribution expresses O'Connor's interest as a writer and defines the contour of her achievement as an artist. Within the twenty-year span of her writing career, O'Connor's notion of retribution expanded from her original concept in her first story, -The Geranium, - of retribution as personal and familial, to her final version in her last story, -Judgement Day, - which shows an interest that is eschatological."

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