> Esprit, No. 3 (3) (Mars 1977), pp. 504-506 : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/le-vot-andre/f-scott-et-zelda-fitzgerald-eclats...
> Voir aussi : http://www.moncelon.fr/carson.htm
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/McCullers-Le-Coeur-hypotheque/241113

> Collin Françoise. Carson Mccullers, Le cœur hypothéqué, Stock.
In: Les Cahiers du GRIF, n°16, 1977. Leur crise nos luttes. p. 108. … ; (en ligne),
URL : http://www.persee.fr/doc/grif_0770-6081_1977_num_16_1_1173_t1_0108_0000_7

A collection of mostly previously uncollected/unpublished works by McCullers intended to showcase the author's literary maturation, it is a fascinating record of her interest in the solitary and the lonely, and of how her early music training has affected and complemented her literary compositions. The first half of the book contains her early stories while the second half contains four later stories as well as some nonfiction essays and poems she penned, which have remained unread by me (and therefore not part of the final rating) as I find myself more interested in her fiction.

Some of the stories were specifically wrote for Sylvia Chatfield Bates' writing workshops and I quite enjoyed the postscripted critiques Mccullers received from Bates. Since my own appreciation of fiction has depended quite arbitrarily on gut instincts rather than some refined knowledge of writing theory - e.g. what is a picture story, I've never thought much about the structure of a scene and how the author can effectively use specific ones for their particular goals - , I very much appreciated these professional critiques on the art of fiction and the art of writing.

Favourites: of the Early Stories, Court in the West Eighties is beautiful; of the Later Stories, The Haunted Boy is outstanding.

Worth a read for the McCullers fan: her story plan outline for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

As well as Bates' aforementioned name, two other writers whose names I will henceforth keep an eye out for: Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Edith Sitwell. ( )

See the review on my blog ( )