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In Fayetteville, North Carolina, she at 23 years of age wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in the southern gothic tradition. Editor of McCullers suggested the title, taken from " The Lonely Hunter," poem of Fiona MacLeod. Carson McCullers and many other persons, however, claim that she wrote in the style of southern realism, a genre that Russian realism inspired. People interpreted the novel as an anti-fascist book. Altogether, she published eight books. The other main character is J T Malone, local drugstore owner and good family man, though somewhat insecure as he has, to a certain degree, depended on his wife’s money and her work. At the beginning of the novel he learns that he has leukaemia and might be dying. Judge Clane is an old and retired judge who is considered too old-fashioned even for the people of the town, who have refused to re-elect him to Congress. Apart from his racist views, his main ambition is to have the United States recognise Confederate money and convert it into US dollars (he has some ten million Confederate dollars). He also mourns his son who killed himself and is bringing up his now grown-up grandson, whose mother died giving birth to him. The grandson, Jester, is studying law and learning to fly and is afraid of but despises his grandfather. The second plot concerns Judge Clane. He has a fantastic scheme to get himself re-elected to Congress after a long absence, while also making a fortune. The judge, who drinks, laments, and lies to himself as much as any man in recent fiction, plans to introduce legislation compelling the U.S. government to redeem all outstanding Confederate currency. People best know Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941). The novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951) also depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love. Yaddo in Saratoga, New York, graduated her, an alumna. If you consider the timing of the novel, I am sure it was a courageous attempt to look the foibles of the South directly in the eye. McCullers seems to be holding a mirror up to the South and saying, this reflection is pretty damned ugly, but it is also pretty damned sad.

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Una historia turbia envuelve la muerte del hijo del juez, una joven promesa de la abogacía, y conforme vamos leyendo se van descubriendo los secretos de esta familia. A la farmacia de Malone llega siempre el juez Fox Clane, una vieja eminencia en el pueblo sureño en el que habitan, aunque con estragos de una embolia que le dejó inutilizada una mano, el juez sigue manteniendo su prestigio así como sus ideas, vive en su casa con unos viejos criados y su nieto Jester, huérfano de padre y madre. Judge Clane, the town's leading citizen and former congressman, longs for the old ways of the South, but also mourns the loss of his wife and son, the latter who committed suicide.Finally, the truth is revealed about the Judge, Johnny and Sherman. When Sherman betters his situation, matters escalate and a dramatic and tragic incident occurs. The Judge believes that civilization was founded on slavery, which offends Sherman’s sensibilities.

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The third thread of the story winds around the relationship of Judge Clane’s grandson, Jester, and the blue-eyed Negro youth, Sherman Pew, whom the judge engages as his secretary. That being said, I see how McCullers tries to tie everything together in some ways in symbolic form at the end. It's much of the way characters and situations are presented that are ineffective. While it is not unusual to find echoes of William Faulkner in the works of Carson McCullers, this 1961 novel calls him to mind the most vividly of any. Race is a constant lurker in both authors’ oeuvre, but it screams its way to the forefront in this, her last novel. Carson McCullers στήνει τον δικό της μυθιστορηματικό μικρόκοσμο, μέσα στον οποίο δρουν οι τέσσερις βασικοί μυθιστορηματικοί της χαρακτήρες. Με απαράμιλλη τρυφερότητα η McCullers σκύβει πάνω από τους ήρωες της και αντιμετωπίζει ισότιμα και με σεβασμό κάθε τους σκέψη, κάθε τους συναίσθημα, κάθε τους πράξη.

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In the mid-20th century, in Milan, Georgia, a middle-aged pharmacist called J.T. Malone is diagnosed with leukemia. It seems that his failing medical school isn't even the worst predicament facing him. He only has a year or so to live. Todo se va polarizando a partir de la locura del juez, quien delira con ideas acerca de devolver el poder adquisitivo a los dólares confederados y devolver a los negros a sus respectivos dueños; aún cuando el juez es una persona amable y sensible, también podemos percibir su ceguera y su cerrazón hacia las personas de color.

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Sherman is intent on solving the mystery of his parentage; the Judge is involved in it and reveals that he is responsible for the boy being an orphan. T.J. Malone es farmacéutico tiene 40 años, dirige su propio negocio, tiene esposa y dos hijos pequeños; un día cualquiera va al médico y recibe la peor de las noticias, esta muriendo y no hay nada que hacer sin siquiera sospecharlo, esta noticia lo deja más lleno de dudas que de certezas, se pone a repasar su vida, y se da cuenta que no está listo para morir, su esposa Martha; una mujercita sin chiste pero resuelta, ha hecho un negocio vendiendo tartas y hasta ha comprado acciones de Coca Cola, es decir no se quedará desamparada, y eso en lugar de aliviarlo le hace sentirse ofendido. I found the author’s prose magnificent, and the portrayal of both the Judge, Sherman, and Malone in his predicament very convincing and realistic. In fact, Carson brilliantly conveys the whole noxious atmosphere of this Southern town, noxious at least as regards interracial relations.As with all her writing, this is distinctively McCullers, with a lovely, lyrical feel (she was a trained musician). urn:oclc:859622112 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20111213193534 Scanner scribe9.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Worldcat (source edition) She from 1935 to 1937 divided her time, as her studies and health dictated, between Columbus and New York and in September 1937 married Reeves McCullers, an ex-soldier and aspiring writer. Reeves found some work at Charlotte, North Carolina, where they began their married life. We learn most of what we need to know about Malone’s life: his fading hope as he goes from doctor to doctor, his changing relationship with his sexually vacant wife after he tells her he is going to die, his loss of interest in his business, his involvement with an old friend and drinking buddy, Fox Clane, an aged former congressman and judge.

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