"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is the first novel by Carson McCullers. Sil had to tell the late thirties in a popular neighborhood of a small town in the southern United States, it could reach the sky with this book there. Between this young writer of twenty two years and the crisis of reality washing limaginaire war and frustrations making obviously part of this reality indeed exist sympathies and complicities that make this book doeuvre his head. In this novel abounding all the characters have their own existence. Certainly they sy off a number of prominent figures. Mick, so endearing, is moon washers. Ladolescente become, passionate about music, rode in his poor neighborhood to catch a few notes of a séchappant radio. She has lintelligence sensitivity and strangely resembles that Carson McCullers. She punctuates these pages of his appearances, his dreams and disappointments. She nest, nor the writer, the center of this story, it is an element of "play". She participates and undergoes she knows and ignores its terrible rules. This is one of the strengths of the state-unienne literature, she knows SImmerse in a usually popular medium without any spirit of system. It brings beings, for the characters collide, and bounce lacking. This is a kind Brownian motion of the characters which the author is merely mixed. In the dialogues of the novel nothing to quote from Carson McCullers. The heroes are not "spoken", they sexpriment for themselves. It is a prodigious intellect that of Dune novel writer at work. Carson McCullers shows in this book men in revolt against loneliness, porters men dune truth that they can not pass. She wrote: "We vagabondons, but we question the answer is hidden in everyone's heart this is our identity, how we can overcome the loneliness and finally feel a sense of belonging () Isolation. moral is what underlies most of the themes that I treat. It was almost the only subject of my first book, and it is found in all those I have written since, one way or other. The love, especially the love for a person unable to make or receive, is the decisive factor from which I devises incongruous characters in my novels () ". This is an infinitely complex dialectical quengendrent multiple encounters characters. The author further states that the book "follows a contrapuntal writing" that "each character represents a whole in itself as each voice of a fugue that each personality is enriched lorsquelle agrees or opposes with the other characters. " This translates concretely by the use of an individual and subjective style to each of the four main interlocutors gravitating around a silent, the latter being treated in an objective and distant way. It is impossible dexposer in a few lines or even hundred pages blockages, inhibitions that only reveal the gradual setting matches the protagonists. The main characters of this novel, unable to talk, will throw their sights on a mute John Singer. But what Jake Blount self LOUVRIER reasons it can transmit any of his ideas to his dinfortune companions? His violence, alcoholism its unattractive, are they his intellectualism to the origin of this impediment? Is his personal or social revolt? Why the black Doctor Benedict Mady Copland dascendant little color on her brothers? Why his family, prey to religious ideas that he hates, she sest irretrievably away from him? His white know is it culturally him a stranger? Is it just fear? The generosity of the cafe Biff Brannon for its poorest customers Is it of great soul? Or rather, is it rather that of a man struggling with his demons? These questions do not exist naturally progress individually. They must be simultaneously raised, embedded throughout the story. John Singer, foreign to life, loses his only friend and improbable, the dumb Spiros Antonapoulos. Fights and shoving, yelling music and the swirl of the arena, all social violence thirties, broke into the poor sick head Jake Blount. Dr. Copland works Completion last breath while his son Willie harmonica is trapped and lost both legs. Portia, the daughter of the black doctor, the talkative cook, curve and even léchine curve. Biff Brannon, Newspapers collector, loses his wife and waits upset Mick passage in his restaurant. Mick Kelly remembers Beethoven, written in secret dream of music and the piano which never naura. She saw her first teenage love with Harry and guilty little Jew who has his eyes on the old Europe. Family Kelly flickers and lives from day to day. Bubber Kelly senferme in guilt denfant after shooting Baby Readers can not be outside this book, it awakens the creation that acts on him. This is where, undoubtedly, the work of great sign.
