Brad Gooch's Flannery (2009), the first full-length treatment of Flannery O'Connor's life, falls into the second category.
Lesser talents compile facts and impressions but fail to re-create the vital being, the real thing. Like James' artist, great biographers use surface details to create an interpretation that captures the essence of the subject. They expect literal images of themselves, whereas the painter practices what James called "the alchemy of art:' imaginatively transforming the literal details into artistic and spiritual truth. Monarch, complain that his representation of them on canvas does not look like them. Inone of Henry James' brilliant parables about art and life, his short story "The Real Thing:' the artist-painter's two models, Major and Mrs.
NewYork,Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, 2009. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS 151 Flannery: A Life ofFlannery O'Connor.
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