Southern American writers and their reception in Romania
Southern American writers and their reception in Romania

Summary/Abstract: On reading stories by Southern writers, we were fascinated by certain aspects that they all seemed to share: the strangeness of characters and of the settings, but also, the exotic and magical atmosphere. When getting engaged in further reading of authoritative studies in that particular field of interest, our attention was drawn to the existence of certain narrative „accessories”, and, more than that, by their recurrence, first within the prose of one individual writer, and then within distinctive writers who, at first sight, , did not seem to have many things in common.This is the case with the books of Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and Truman Capote, three related and yet so distinctive Southern writers. The starting point was the elements of unity, those characteristics that confer the three writers the air de famille, their belonging to the later traditionalist trend in Southern fiction. Besides the generous context of cross-cultural exchanges, owing to the certain apartness of Gothic fiction in the larger frame of Southern literature, the incentive for our research was also the spirit of inquiry, to identify both the extent to which and the light in which their reception took place.

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