Carson McCullers no doubt had a very different view and from the beginning of her writing career she emphasized southern white guilt and inscribed this very notion into southern exceptionalism.
Her unwillingness to accept John Henry and Berenice as her "we of me" is
Carson McCullers at her most self-critical and reflective.
"From apparent influences as disparate as George Saunders, Saki, Stephen King,
Carson McCullers and Joy Williams, she has fashioned a quirky, textured voice that is thoroughly her own: by turns lyrical and funny, fantastical and meditative.
Something like
Carson McCullers without the malaise, or Spike Lee without the chatter.
IN
CARSON MCCULLERS'S FIRST NOVEL The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) her adolescent girl protagonist, Mick Kelly, is left to deal with the aftermath of the accidental shooting of a three-year-old neighbourhood girl, Baby, by her beloved younger brother, Bubber.
More controversial is a related claim: that Persona can be illuminated by juxtaposing it with two texts Bergman may well not have known, and to which no links of any kind are made in his film: Stefan Zweig's Chess Novella (1942) and
Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943).
Carson McCullers wrote that 'the dead demand a double vision'.
Bolano relates these influences through a series of dream journeys, in which he meets such writers as Vallejo, Borges, Boethius, Baudelaire, Sir James Barrie, Manuel Puig, Stendhal, Gabriela Mistral, Nicanor Parra, Walt Whitman, Archibald MacLeish,
Carson McCullers, Ana'is Nin, and Philip K.
The works collected in this volume include A Linguistic Look at Riddles, Triggers and Targets: a Linguistic Look at Humor, Adverbials, Direct Objects and the Style of
Carson McCullers and Phonological Ingenuety in "Five Songs" by W.H.