Carson McCullers

THE RUSSIAN REALISTS AND SOUTHERN LITERATURE


In the South during the past fifteen years a genre of writing has come about that is sufficiently homogeneous to have led critics to label it 'the Gothic School'. This tag, however, is unfortunate, the effect of a Gothic tale may be similar to that of Faulkner story in its evocation of horror, beauty, and emotional ambivalence - but this effect evolves from opposite sources