Eudora Welty

Citations

• “Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean.”

• “Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”

• “happiness, [he] knew, is something that appears to you suddenly, that is meant for you, a thing which you reach for and pick up and hide at your breast, a shiny thing that reminds you of something alive and leaping.”

• “Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?”

• “How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck.”

Les livres de Eudora Welty dans l'ordre

Les livres de Eudora Welty dans l'ordre de parution, de A Curtain of Green (1941) à Eudora Welty as Photographer (2009).

1. 1A Curtain of GreenA Curtain of Green1941
2. 2The Robber BridegroomThe Robber Bridegroom1942
3. 3The Wide NetThe Wide Net1943
4. 4Delta WeddingDelta Wedding1946
5. 5The Golden ApplesThe Golden Apples1947
6. 6The Bride of the InnisfallenThe Bride of the Innisfallen1949
7. 7The Ponder HeartThe Ponder Heart1954
8. 8Thirteen StoriesThirteen Stories1965
   Ce qu'il contient (13)

   • The Wide Net
   • Old Mr. Marblehall
   • Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden
   • A Worn Path
   • Petrified Man
   • A Still Moment
   • Lily Daw and the Three Ladies
   • The Hitch-hikers
   • Powerhouse
   • Why I Live at the P.O
   • Livvie
   • Moon Lake
   • The Bride of the Innisfallen
9. 9Losing BattlesLosing Battles1970
10. 10The Optimist's DaughterThe Optimist's Daughter1972
11. 11The Eye of the StoryThe Eye of the Story1978
12. 12The Collected Stories of Eudora WeltyThe Collected Stories of Eudora Welty1980
13. 13One Writer's BeginningsOne Writer's Beginnings1984
14. 14Eudora WeltyEudora Welty1985
15. 15Oncle Daniel, le GénéreuxOncle Daniel, le Généreux1997
16. 16Complete NovelsComplete Novels1998
17. 17Stories, Essays & MemoirStories, Essays & Memoir1998
18. 18The Optimist's Daughter LPThe Optimist's Daughter LP2000
19. 19On WritingOn Writing2002
20. 20Eudora Welty as PhotographerEudora Welty as Photographer2009