Everything That Rises Must Converge

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Everything That Rises Must Converge is a posthumously published collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor, noted for its darkly comic explorations of race, class, and morality in the American South.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
author Flannery O'Connor
containsAutobiographicalElements no
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly acclaimed
depicts conflicts between old Southern values and modernity
racial tensions during desegregation
genre Southern Gothic
short stories
hasCentralConcern moral blindness
spiritual crisis
hasForm prose
hasIllustrations no
hasReligiousSubtext Catholic theology
hasTargetAudience adult readers
hasTitleShortStory A View of the Woods
Everything That Rises Must Converge self-link
Greenleaf
Judgment Day
Parker's Back
Book of Revelation
surface form: Revelation

The Comforts of Home
The Enduring Chill
The Lame Shall Enter First
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
includedIn 20th-century American literature canon
isFollowedBy The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
language English
literaryMovement Catholic literature
mainThemes grace and redemption
race relations
religious faith
social change in the American South
violence and moral shock
narrativeStyle third-person narration
notableFor darkly comic tone
exploration of class in the American South
exploration of morality in the American South
exploration of race in the American South
originalPublicationYear 1965
posthumouslyCompletedBy Flannery O'Connor's literary executors
publicationStatus posthumous
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED
settingLocation Southern United States
surface form: American South
titleOrigin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's phrase "everything that rises must converge"
tone darkly comic
ironic

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Flannery O'Connor notableWork Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery notableWork Everything That Rises Must Converge
subject surface form: Flannery O'Connor
Mary notableWork Everything That Rises Must Converge
subject surface form: Mary Flannery O'Connor