美国女作家弗兰纳里·奥康纳执著于对人真实存在意义的不断追寻。她的小说迥异于传统现实主义,关注于一种“更深层的现实主义”。对她而言,“小说家必须介入永恒,而这只有触及对真实的全心全意的信仰才能实现。”[1]246然而,奥康纳也深知:“一个作家越是要凸显超自然的世界,他就越需要有能力使自然 Flannery O’Connor, an American woman writer, is persistent in her pursuit of the true meaning of man. Her novels are quite different from traditional realism and focus on a kind of ”deeper realism.“ For her, ”the novelist must be involved in eternity, which can only be achieved if it involves touching wholehearted faith in the truth.“ [1] 246 However, O’Connor also knows very well: ”The more a writer is to manifest the supernatural The more he needs the ability to make nature in the world