读弗兰纳里·奥康纳的作品,那些形色各异的小人物总会给人留下深刻的印象与长久的思索。奥康纳被誉为继福克纳之后,美国南方最杰出的小说家,以其女性所特有的对生活的敏锐洞察力和切身的生命体悟,运用精准的文字驾驭能力,向读者展现了一幕幕普通小人物的生活悲剧。他们是社会中的大多数,却被排挤到社会的边缘地带;他们尝试并相信自己可以把握生活的真理,却又无往不在虚妄之中。在奥康纳笔下,读者很难发现体现人性的善良、正义与智慧等积极层面的人物典型。那些对 Reading Flannery O’Connor’s work, those little people of all shapes and sizes will always leave a deep impression and long-term thinking. O’Connor is hailed as Faulkner, the most outstanding novelist in the South of the United States, with its unique insight into the life of women and the realization of personal life, the use of precise text control ability to show the audience Ordinary people life tragedy. They are the majority of society, but they are pushed out to the margins of society; they try and believe that they can grasp the truth of life, but they are all in nothingness. In O’Connor’s pen, readers find it hard to find positive examples of human nature such as goodness, justice and wisdom. Those are right