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Most of these stories investigate the ways individuals can live and create meaning for themselves without being rooted in time and place. Even before she pulled The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories together, she published The Ponder Heart , an extended dramatic monologue delivered by Edna Earle, a character who truly is a character.
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Welty had produced seven distinctive books in fourteen years, but that rate of production came to a startling halt. Personal tragedies forced her to put writing on the back burner for more than a decade. Then in she graced the publishing world with Losing Battles , a long novel narrated largely through the conversation of the aunts, uncles, and cousins attending a rambunctious s family reunion.
Two years later came a taut, spare novel set in the late s and describing the experience of loss and grief which had so recently been her own. Instead, she suggests, the artist, must look squarely at the mysteries of human experiences without trying to resolve them. It drew Reynolds Price as well. Price, though, focuses not on the term mystery, but on the complexity of her vision. Held in my mouth the moon became a word. One may ask—my students do—is it likely that Welty, writing this memoir in her seventies, did actually remember this scene in such detail as she describes?
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No matter, an autobiography is not a life; it is a text, a narrative, a composed story. What is important to Welty here is to articulate for herself and her reader what the nature of writing is. I want to consider now some aspects of the writing life that Welty identifies as pleasurable and valuable to her personally. She never mentions, by the way, in her writings or interviews that fame or celebrity was in any way significant.
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If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles. For a time during her last three decades, Welty periodically worked on fiction, but completed nothing to her own high standards, standards that made her a literary celebrity. She appeared on televised interviews, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor, served as the subject of a BBC documentary, and was chosen as the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series.
After a short illness and as the result of cardio-pulmonary failure, Eudora Welty died on 23 July , in Jackson, Mississippi, her lifelong home, where she is buried. IMO -- she was an amazing woman, truly before her time. This biography of Eudora Welty is unauthorized—but not because the author wanted to say anything negative about her subject.
No, indeed, Ann Waldron writes with a nearly fawning reverence. But Welty was immovably opposed to all biographies whatsoever, and furthermore told all her friends and acquaintances not to talk about her. Welty hid herself behind politeness and gentility, and it seems that these traits only grew stronger as she aged. The woman who dismissed feminism as "noisiness", and who This biography of Eudora Welty is unauthorized—but not because the author wanted to say anything negative about her subject.
The woman who dismissed feminism as "noisiness", and who could hardly have a worse criticism of people than to consider them crass and badly-behaved, showed the same preferences in her fiction as in her life. Waldron put herself in this position by becoming too partisan for her subject.
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She not only dwells at length on the praise that Welty received, but defends her from people who accuse her of social complacency, and becomes indignant on her behalf whenever someone criticizes her writing. It makes for an unsatisfactory biography, even more so because Waldron is not a highly skilled writer, occasionally even falling into the tone of the kind of laudatory mini-biographies that make for such dull hearing at award ceremonies.
She herself pointed out that however uneventful her years seemed superficially, she had plenty going on in her mind. No life is dull if well understood. But this biography is only a partial contribution toward that understanding, tantalizing with some information, laying out a framework of facts, but ultimately remaining respectfully, politely unilluminating. Feb 14, Ariel rated it it was ok Shelves: Ann Waldron has become my idea of a paparazzo of the biographical set. The information set forth was in depth, redundantly so.
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Her personal commentary throughout was mostly a chore to read through as it mainly centered on her immaturely pricked pride that Welty didn't want her to write this biography or to give her any personal information to help in the writing of it. Annoyance at the biographer aside, Welty's life and work is quite fascinating; which is the only reason this book received two s Ann Waldron has become my idea of a paparazzo of the biographical set. Annoyance at the biographer aside, Welty's life and work is quite fascinating; which is the only reason this book received two stars.
Though I find that I couldn't care less, unlike the biographer, who she flirted with or fell for and what said person s ' sexual orientation was. Why is this such a repetitive refrain in this book? Sure, healthy conjecture can be interesting, but repeated conjecture is hardly rewarding. So, the effort spent reading this isn't for nothing Dec 27, Libby rated it really liked it.
I was skeptical at first about reading this because the author did not have the cooperation of Eudora Welty or any of her associates.
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But I love Eudora Welty and wanted to learn more about her. Although it is written from other written sources rather than interviews, I learned a lot and have thought about it often. Some of the inspirations and background for her short stories and novels is highlighted which makes me want to go back and re-read some of Welty's works. Dahlia rated it it was amazing Jan 22, Susan Howe rated it liked it Oct 25, Eldra rated it it was amazing Nov 28, Richard Noel Hill rated it really liked it Apr 18, Laura Braswell rated it liked it Mar 04, Salt rated it liked it May 13, Elizabeth rated it really liked it Jan 03, Janice rated it it was amazing Apr 13, Clifford rated it really liked it May 16, Gloria rated it it was amazing Sep 19,