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She is the woman whom V.S. Pritchett called “the most remarkable novelist … to come out of America for a generation.” During and somewhat before this nine-year interval McCullers suffered a succession of personal catastrophes — the death of her husband and a series of strokes, the last of which partially incapacitated her at the age of twenty-nine. There are several story lines to the novel, all eventually woven into one. The first follows the last year in the life of J.T. Malone, proprietor of an old-fashioned drugstore in a small town in (perhaps) Georgia. As the book opens Malone is informed that he is fatally ill with leukemia. Judge Clane, the town's leading citizen and former congressman, longs for the old ways of the South, but also mourns the loss of his wife and son, the latter who committed suicide. As with all her writing, this is distinctively McCullers, with a lovely, lyrical feel (she was a trained musician).

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John Huston directed Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. People shot some of the film in city of New York and on Long Island, where the Army permitted Huston to use an abandoned installation. People filmed many of the interiors and some of the exteriors in Italy. "I first met Carson McCullers during the war when I was visiting Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith in upstate New York," said Huston in An Open Book (1980). The book differs appreciably from McCullers' earlier novels. It contains, to be sure, the theme which has always been at the center of her work—man's loneliness and the eternal flaw in the machinery of love. The judge's son, we learn, turned against him; Jester's admiring devotion toward Sherman is received with chilling condescension or rudeness; Malone suffers from his complete spirtual isolation; and Sherman tries to cover up his by boasting of mythical travels, sexual conquests, and experineces of high living. But another and more helpful theme is dramatized; the novel, as Miss McCullers points out, "is about response and responsibility—of man toward his own livingness." The judge and Sherman, bemused by their obsessions, destroy themselves. But the wretched Malone, when chance singles him out to execute the verdict of the mob against Sherman, finds, for the first time, the courage to act in accordance with his conscience. And Jester emerges from his daydreams and uncertainties with the conviction that he wants to carry on his father's work as a lawyer: to fight on the side of justice against passion. When her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published in 1940 she became the toast of the literary scene. The novel was wildly successful, more so than her next three works, which were all published before her thirtieth birthday.That being said, I see how McCullers tries to tie everything together in some ways in symbolic form at the end. It's much of the way characters and situations are presented that are ineffective. Kitabın temel meselesi ırkçılık olsa da bu zaten çok fazla okuyup izlediğimiz bir mesele olduğu için yazarın ölümle ilgili söyledikleri daha çok ilgimi çekti benim. Karakterlerden biri ölümcül bir hastalığa sahip, biri çok yaşlı, birinin -torun- babası intihar etmiş ve sonuncu ise ten renginden dolayı zaten ölüme çok yakın yaşamış hep. Bütün karakterlerin ölümle böyle içli dışlı olması ve bu konuda yaptıkları muhakemeleri okumak çok etkileyiciydi. Bir de McCullers'ın muhteşem bir kalemi olunca iyice keyif verdi okuması. We learn most of what we need to know about Malone’s life: his fading hope as he goes from doctor to doctor, his changing relationship with his sexually vacant wife after he tells her he is going to die, his loss of interest in his business, his involvement with an old friend and drinking buddy, Fox Clane, an aged former congressman and judge. Durante todo el libro habla de su cocinera como de un familiar, inclusive dice sentir aprecio por ella, pero se horroriza cuando ella le pide seguridad social y un aumento de sueldo y la corre, aún cuando lleva más de 20 años con el. According to a recent poll, 6 a.m is the most common alarm call, with 8% of all Americans waking up at that time.

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I could not help wondering how many of these feelings were Carson McCullers’ own reaction to her bad health and sure knowledge that she was on a downward slope toward her own demise. This was her last book, written in 1961, and although she did not die until 1967, she was never well during those six intervening years. She suffered during her lifetime from a chronic heart disease, and she had repeated strokes that weakened her and left her in extreme pain and robbed of dexterity. However, there are many levels on which this novel simply does not work, not the least of which is the unbroken feeling that you are standing outside the story just watching it from afar. It is a very emotional subject–Faulkner always makes me squirm and cry, McCullers just made me tense and left me cold. I could not muster sympathy for any of the characters, including the pharmacist, J. T. Malone, who has been handed a death sentence by his doctor when the story begins.Fiction of American writer Carson Smith McCullers explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South; her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946). Hikaye 1950'lerde, Amerika'nın güneyindeki hayali Milan kasabasında geçiyor. Dört ana karakterimiz var: daha kitabın ilk cümlelerinde öleceğini öğrendiğimiz 40 yaşındaki eczacı Malone, vaktiyle Amerikan senatosunda yer almış ama artık 85'ine gelmiş Yargıç Clane, yargıcın 17 yaşındaki torunu Jester ve bir de Jester'la yaşıt olan siyahi Sherman. Hepsi de oldukça iyi yazılmış, tam olarak iyi ya da kötü diyemeyeceğimiz, en önemlisi de iç dünyaları bize çok iyi yansıtılan karakterler. While it is not unusual to find echoes of William Faulkner in the works of Carson McCullers, this 1961 novel calls him to mind the most vividly of any. Race is a constant lurker in both authors’ oeuvre, but it screams its way to the forefront in this, her last novel. Al final nos queda una sensación de que las personas buenas con ideas erróneas e inflexibles, también pueden provocar mucho daño a su alrededor, y esto lo hace Carson de una manera casi sin esfuerzo, aún cuando este libro está un poco alejado de sus personajes marginados, sus escenarios melancólicos, sigue siendo un gran trabajo aunado al echo que lo escribió estando ya muy enferma. She from 1935 to 1937 divided her time, as her studies and health dictated, between Columbus and New York and in September 1937 married Reeves McCullers, an ex-soldier and aspiring writer. Reeves found some work at Charlotte, North Carolina, where they began their married life.

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The third thread of the story winds around the relationship of Judge Clane’s grandson, Jester, and the blue-eyed Negro youth, Sherman Pew, whom the judge engages as his secretary. Finally, the truth is revealed about the Judge, Johnny and Sherman. When Sherman betters his situation, matters escalate and a dramatic and tragic incident occurs.

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Jester is Judge Clane's grandson and is learning to fly and studying law. Jester is strangely drawn to Sherman but is growing to despise his grandfather's beliefs. J.T. MALONE: A 40 year old druggist dying of leukemia, who goes to four different doctors trying to find a diagnosis different than death. THE JUDGE: A gluttonous, bigoted man who lied to himself as to his worth, and at age 85, has come up with a plan for the federal government to make reparations to the South for the financial ruin brought about when slaves were freed. Judge Clane dominates most of the action in a novel which begins, follows, and concludes with Malone in situations completely unrelated to the judge’s motives and spirit. In the mid-20th century, in Milan, Georgia, a middle-aged pharmacist called J.T. Malone is diagnosed with leukemia. It seems that his failing medical school isn't even the worst predicament facing him. He only has a year or so to live.

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Mrs. McCullers repeatedly loses control of her material. Long passages of groovy, hip talk between Sherman and Jester lead nowhere. What begins (with great beauty, I thin) to be a pathos-laden study of a small man’s last days of life turns into a bizarre recitation of a screwball’s abberation, irrelevant visitations to memory, and senile schemes of glory. Kitabın ilginç bulduğum bir özelliği de bir kadın yazar tarafından yazılmış "erkekler" romanı olması. Bütün ana karakterler erkek, hatta düzenli olarak bahsedilen iki kadın karakter var galiba -Malone'un karısı ve Yargıcın hizmetçisi-. Bu iki karakter de güçlü kadınlar olarak görünse de kitabın ele aldığı meselelerle ilgili düşüncelerini çok fazla duyamamamız üzücü. Ancak bir kadın yazarın farklı yaşlarda erkek karakterleri bu kadar başarılı yazmış olması ise hayranlık uyandırıcı.

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Carson McCullers στήνει τον δικό της μυθιστορηματικό μικρόκοσμο, μέσα στον οποίο δρουν οι τέσσερις βασικοί μυθιστορηματικοί της χαρακτήρες. Με απαράμιλλη τρυφερότητα η McCullers σκύβει πάνω από τους ήρωες της και αντιμετωπίζει ισότιμα και με σεβασμό κάθε τους σκέψη, κάθε τους συναίσθημα, κάθε τους πράξη. Todo se va polarizando a partir de la locura del juez, quien delira con ideas acerca de devolver el poder adquisitivo a los dólares confederados y devolver a los negros a sus respectivos dueños; aún cuando el juez es una persona amable y sensible, también podemos percibir su ceguera y su cerrazón hacia las personas de color.