“Never the Right Food”

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" “Never the Right Food” "
Michial Farmer

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081709
Doc. No	:	LA125338
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-01901005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Michial Farmer
Title & Author	:	“Never the Right Food” [Article]\ Michial Farmer
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	19/1-2
Page No	:	84–106
Abstract	:	Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood, and John Updike’s second, Rabbit, Run, both deal with the convergences and divergences of the physical and material worlds. Both feature characters who are driven by instinctual longings for or away from divinity, and both feature complicated relationships between their characters and the gods they seek and flee. But the conclusions drawn by these two novels are contradictory. O’Connor’s Hazel Motes, in his desperate attempt to escape from God’s call, ends up performing a painful bodily penance and presumably finds God present in his suffering. Updike’s Harry Angstrom, on the other hand, does his best to find God’s active presence in the world but ends up alienated from that presence, subsumed in the physical world in which he seeks it. This paper seeks an answer for this divergence in endings.
Descriptor	:	existentialism
Descriptor	:	Flannery O’Connor
Descriptor	:	John Updike
Descriptor	:	penance
Descriptor	:	physical world
Descriptor	:	religious impulse
Descriptor	:	spiritual world
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-01901005‬