Abstract
In Flannery O'Connor: Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone, Professor of English at Fordham University, reads O'Connor against the tenets of the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-century Christian monastics who retreated to the desert for spiritual renewal and communion with God. Drawing upon O'Connor's classification of herself as a "hermit novelist," Gianonne says that her isolation is both internal and external. Her disease, Lupus erethematos, "yanked her back" to her backwoods home, four miles outside Milledgeville, Georgia, creating a situation he likens to the desert mothers and fathers who understood "the interior bearings of the new starting point to which the homecomer, by choice or fate is bought."
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