Culture

He had his moment of splendor in Spanish lyric poetry: the second half of the twentieth century, now, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, he is vindicated as a fundamental Spanish poet, of enormous and intense poetic breath, capable of turning his literary experience into a way of approaching God.

Literature is not just entertainment. For the American Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor it is a means of stirring up readers and making them think. O'Connor does this often with grotesque characters and violent situations, she is not "politically correct" and thus invites us to reflect on the meaning of life.