Title: When fiction and philosophy meet : a conversation with Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil /
Authors: Doering, E. Jane; Johansen, Ruthann Knechel, 1942-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Weil, Simone, Criticism and interpretation.; O'Connor, Flannery Criticism and interpretation.; Weil, Simone, Influence.; Fiction Religious aspects Christianity; Literature Philosophy; Philosophy in literature; Christian philosophy
Abstract: Explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA.
Contents: Preface : "The red virgin" and "The red clay virgin" -- Two twentieth-century women and the world -- The poetics of philosophy and fiction -- Attention and apprenticeship : Simone Weil's "Reflections on the right use of school studies with a view to the love of God," "The love of our neighbor," and Notebooks : Flannery O'Connor's "The artificial nigger" and "The displaced person" -- Beauty and charity : Simone Weil's "Letter to a priest," Notebooks, and "Love of the order of the world" : Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people," "The lame shall enter first," and "Revelation" -- Suffering and affliction : Simone Weil's "The love of God and affliction" : Flannery O'Connor's "The enduring chill" and The violent bear it away -- Grace and decreation : Simone Weil's "Forms of the implicit love of God" and Notebooks : Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" and "A view of the woods" -- Conclusion : the enduring world.