Overview
Carson McCullers was a multitalented writer who produced two plays and numerous short stories, essays, and poems; but it is her novels and novellas, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Café, that established her as a key voice of the 1940s and 1950s. Critics have praised her lyrical evocations of the yearning for love, always tempered by a harsh acknowledgment of the futility of the quest. This new collection of full-length critical essays offers illuminating discussions of McCuller's work and its place in the American canon. This latest title in the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series is enhanced by a chronology, a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introduction by noted literary scholar Harold Bloom.Synopsis
Carson McCullers was a multitalented writer who produced two plays and numerous short stories, essays, and poems; but it is her novels and novellas, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Café, that established her as a key voice of the 1940s and 1950s. Critics have praised her lyrical evocations of the yearning for love, always tempered by a harsh acknowledgment of the futility of the quest. This new collection of full-length critical essays offers illuminating discussions of McCuller's work and its place in the American canon. This latest title in the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series is enhanced by a chronology, a bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introduction by noted literary scholar Harold Bloom.