Flannery O''Connor: New Perspectives
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Apocalypse of Self, Resurrection of the Double: Flannery O''Connor''s The Violent Bear It Away Suzanne Morrow Paulson Flannery O''Connor''s The Violent Bear It Away seems to resist the glimpse of the author''s "sacred consciousness" that she promised the reader.1 An odyssey toward madness rather than salvation, the novel begins with the death of Mason Tarwater and ends with a grotesque " resurrection" as old Tarwater''s will takes over the psyche of his young nephew, Francis.