Carson McCullers

A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.

More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation--the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of Sad Cafe--died of a stroke at the age of fifty before finishing this, her last manuscript. Editor Carlos L. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, and friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and the intense relationships of the important women in her life.

This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," several early stories, and other important works.

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."

Miss Amelias Caf? ist die einzige Vergnügungsstätte weit und breit. Dort verkauft die unabhängige und starke Frau ihren selbstgebrannten Schnaps, und dort lebt sie mit Vetter Lymon, einem kleinen buckligen Mann, der gar nicht ihr Vetter ist. Dann jedoch kehrt ihr ehemaliger Mann in die Stadt zurück. - Eine tragische Dreiecksgeschichte aus den amerikanischen Südstaaten über die im Leben ewig zu kurz Kommenden, über Sehnsucht, Verrat, bittere Enttäuschung und kurzes Glück.

The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers"s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Uno de los m s importantes exponentes, junto con William Faulkner, de la narrativa del sur de Estados Unidos. Adem s de ser autora de varias novelas, obras de teatro, ensayos, poemas y una autobiograf a, Carson McCullers (Columbus, Georgia, 1917 - Nueva York, 1967) public veinte relatos breves, nueve de los cuales, valorados entre sus m s logradas creaciones, conforman esta selecci n, que incorpora algunas de sus primeras piezas, como Sucker , El aliento del cielo o Wunderkind , y otras de m s tard a escritura, como Un rbol. Una roca. Una nube , El transe nte o Qui n ha visto el viento? . Encumbrada al pante n de escritores sure os norteamericanos junto a autores como William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor o Truman Capote, McCullers sobresali en su iluminadora capacidad de retratar personajes solitarios en busca de un lugar en el mundo y de capturar con toda la intensidad emocional el universo ntimo de sus turbulencias a trav s de una prosa tan sencilla como poderosa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the most important voices--alongside William Faulkner--in Southern U.S. literature. In addition to writing several novels, plays, essays, poems, and an autobiography, Carson McCullers (Columbus, Georgia, 1917 - New York, 1967) published twenty short stories, nine of which--considered among her finest--are featured in this selection. It includes early works such as "Sucker," "Breath from the Sky," and "Wunderkind," as well as later pieces like "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud," "The Wanderer," and "Who Has Seen the Wind?" Celebrated among the great Southern American writers alongside William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Truman Capote, McCullers stood out for her luminous ability to portray lonely characters searching for their place in the world, capturing the emotional intensity of their inner lives through prose that is both simple and powerful.

På New York Café, i en sørstatsby på 30-tallet, spiser døvstumme John Singer sin middag hver dag. Mange av byens innbyggere kommer til han for å lette sitt hjerte; Den sinte drukkenbolten, den svarte legen og borgerrettighetsforkjemperen, og Mick Kelly, ungjenta med de store drømmene og sin veldige lengsel etter skjønnhet. De forteller den vennlige mannen om sine drømmer og lengsler. På sitt stillfarne vis skal Singer komme til å endre deres ensomme liv på måter de ikke har kunnet forestille seg. Hjertet er en ensom jeger ble en litterær sensasjon da den utkom i 1940. Den 23 år gamle forfatteren viser en litterær modenhet og livsinnsikt som treffer leseren midt i hjertet og hun gir et lavmælt og krystallklart bilde av kampen rundt klasse, rase og kjønn. Boka regnes som en av de store klassikerne i amerikansk litteratur. Den gikk rett inn på norske bestselgerlister ved gjenutgivelsen i 2016.

An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations of readers continue to discover her work, Carson McCullers's celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than ever. Edited by McCullers's sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.

A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives.