Deep South’s Zen: Flannery O’Connor, Reviewer of the Oriental
Abstract
In 1959 and 1963, Flannery O’Connor published two extremely interesting approaches to zen and the methods to master it. To do that, she composed two reviews that emphasized the traditional values of this Buddhist school for the development of everyday life in the United States. Those years, O’Connor wrote the aforementioned reviews, being the first published in 1959 and remaining the second unpublished until 1983. The main objective of the present article is to study how O’Connor, a devout Southern catholic, reflected about the postulates of zen, assimilating them in her ordinary life, through the access to the books she reviewed.
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