ThinkExist.com revisits Carson McCullers
ThinkExist.com revisits Carson McCullers
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Summary:
Sixty-four years after it was originally published, Carson McCullers
first novel The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is still a
literary phenomenon.
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By Mark A. Lugris
ThinkExist.com
MADRID Sixty-four years after it was originally published,
Carson McCullers first novel The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
is still a literary phenomenon.
Holding the twenty-second position on The New York Times best-selling
paperbacks list, thanks in part to being included in Oprahs
book club, but mostly due to its survival as a timeless tale of
isolation and compassion.
Born in Georgia in 1917, Lula Carson Smith was a child piano prodigy,
yet as a high school student, she suffered from rheumatic fever,
which lead to crippling strokes throughout her life. Before graduating
from Columbus High School, Carson decided to abandon the piano and
become a writer. She read the works of Dostoevski, Chekhov, Tolstoy,
and ONeill, and began writing plays.
In 1934, Carson left Savannah and traveled to New York City, where
she enrolled at Columbia University. Through a friend, she met James
Reeves McCullers, Jr. in 1935 and a year later published "Wunderkind,"
which appeared in Story magazine. In 1937, Carson and Reeves married
and returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Carson began work
on her first novel, originally entitled The Mute. Carson
found refuge in her characters during her painful bouts of bad health
and personal trials. "I live with the people I create and it
has always made my essential loneliness less keen," said McCullers.
Considered McCullers finest novel and an American masterpiece,
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter remains a paean to the
damned, the voiceless and the rejected, each on an intense
search for beauty.
ThinkExist.com remembers Carson McCullers, one of Americas
pioneering women writers, through her own words, which transcended
the written page and endure as her greatest heritage.
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