Keiner Menschenseele kann man noch trauen

Flannery O'Connor's stories are set in the Southern states, the heartland of conservative America. With masterful precision, she crafts settings and characters—narrow-minded, self-righteous provincials whose God-fearing existence is disrupted by intruders: like the outlaw who, fully aware of his wickedness, shoots a defenseless lady, or the drifter who marries the deaf-mute farmer's daughter to swindle the farmer's car. With an unflinching eye for grotesque situations and biting irony, Flannery O'Connor exposes the wounds of her time, which have reopened today: racism and a diffuse fear of the foreign.