Eudora Welty's Top 3 Books

Feminine sensitivity, in times that were still hard for women, together with her passion for photography ended up coming together in literature as the ultimate expression of a captivating universe. Because Eudora Welty he finally fused all his creativity in a literary facet valued over time as a chronicle of the southern United States during such relevant phases as the Great Depression or many other later scenarios of the XNUMXth century.

Yes, it's about the same deep south that served as the stage at times to a William Faulkner that he also paid off his debt to his origins in not a few of his works.

From the local to the universal. Every author determined to reveal the most human interiorities and intrahistories of any space, ends up becoming that narrator of our civilization in that magical representation of the part for the whole. Humanistic synecdoche made literary work. Stories that, from the sensitivity and detail, happily surpass fiction to reach much more transcendental ideas.

Of course, nothing would be possible without that literary hook of good stories, of stories that revolve around intense, powerful characters. And also there Eudora Welty strived towards that excellence that makes a dialogue or a reflection something entirely authentic.

3 best books by Eudora Welty

The optimist's daughter

When an author confronts the novel, it always tends to outweigh the rest of any previous smaller work.

The question, the challenge, is to achieve in this more extensive format transfer such good nuances of a creative universe enriched in the small stories.

In this plot that end is easily achieved. The protagonist is Laurel, a woman who returns to her origins with the imperious claim of a father's illness that will exhaust her days with her. Life closes its own chapters when the parents leave, without any amendment.

And that's when Laurel faces that titanic mission to give meaning to her life when the void looms. In front of her she will find Fay, her father's last wife, interested in inheritances more than anything else.

With Fay, Laurel will have the most raw confrontations in history, as she tries to close chapters of her life that, without her father, are worthless. Because guilt always wants to collect its ransom.
The Optimist's Daughter

Complete stories

The stories always have a photographic component, an easy illustration of their main idea, their minimal settings.

Welty's creative origins, rooted in photography, are manifested here with the greatest intensity if possible from the total description of characters and landscapes, of feelings, emotions, ideas and desires. This volume compiles stories set in various settings in that deep south dotted with magical places, between traditions and customs as magnetic as they are sometimes squeaky.

The compilation is not even painted and is completely appropriate for that shared scenography only that with the passage of years and decades.

In this book, characters charged with magic act, faced with a thousand and one adversities, exposed with an open soul in front of the reader in a reading that in the end is warm, however, as kind as it is strange at times. The best example of all the work of the great Welty.

Welty's Complete Stories

The inherited word

What is biographical acquires in the truly relevant characters, teaching dyes in many aspects. Discovering Welty's vision of his own life, assumes a very special value in this testimony. "The soul writes its books but nobody reads them", as Yupanqui sang.

In the case of Welty, he knew how to tackle this great work of translating his soul into old age, a possibility available to very few fortunate people. Among the images of his life, transformed by that subjective nuance of the passage of time, Welty delves into everything, from historical contexts to the most personal moments. From his photographic scenarios where intense feelings arise, melancholic gratitude. A brilliant and emotional review from the last notes of an always favorite song.

The inherited word

5/5 - (9 votes)

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.