Both Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner explored the lives and existence of alienated and odd characters.
Flannery O'Connor was a twentieth-century American writer; author of two novels and 32 stories, she also published essays and reviews. Her work, considered one of the most important in twentieth-century American literature, was widely studied in the context of southern literature in the United States; her characters and the environment she describes are southerners, and at the same time his work transcends the local level to create fictions of universal scope.
William Faulkner was an American narrator and poet. His works include psychological drama and emotional depth, he used a long and serpentine prose, in addition to a meticulous lexicon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Both authors develop their stories in the American South, and their characters inquire about the spiritual misery of the human being, being frequent the psychological traumas of the same ones. These twisted but common characters make the reader find them ordinary, but at the same time interesting.
