Thread: Literary My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories by Frank O'Connor
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Old 12-18-2013, 03:02 PM   #23
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In the introduction to Collected Stories of Frank O'Connor (Haupf, 1981), Richard Ellman writes this, referencing O'Connor's experience in the Civil War:

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A sentence in Gogol's story “The Overcoat” summed up O'Connor's state of mind and he would borrow it later when writing about prisoners: “And anything that happened to me after I never felt the same about again.”
After reading that line in several stories, most devastatingly at the end of Guests of the Nation, it is good to know this.
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