Understanding Flannery O'Connor

Look who's Quixotic now, tilting your head at what's not there!

The works of Flannery O’Connor are widely recognized as possessing bizarre, protean elements and freakish characters who are morally and socially distorted. Much like one might expect of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch,¹ they often demonstrate a violent will to power and carry out personal conquests, often by way of comedic or disturbing antics, to prove their au…