If you consider the timing of the novel, I am sure it was a courageous attempt to look the foibles of the South directly in the eye. McCullers seems to be holding a mirror up to the South and saying, this reflection is pretty damned ugly, but it is also pretty damned sad.

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That being said, I see how McCullers tries to tie everything together in some ways in symbolic form at the end. It's much of the way characters and situations are presented that are ineffective. When her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published in 1940 she became the toast of the literary scene. The novel was wildly successful, more so than her next three works, which were all published before her thirtieth birthday.

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Una historia turbia envuelve la muerte del hijo del juez, una joven promesa de la abogacía, y conforme vamos leyendo se van descubriendo los secretos de esta familia.

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Carson lived nearby, and one day when Buzz and I were out for a walk she hailed us from her doorway. She was then in her early twenties, and had already suffered the first of a series of strokes. I remember her as a fragile thing with great shining eyes, and a tremor in her hand as she placed it in mine. It wasn't palsy, rather a quiver of animal timidity. But there was nothing timid or frail about the manner in which Carson McCullers faced life. And as her afflictions multiplied, she only grew stronger." Finally, the truth is revealed about the Judge, Johnny and Sherman. When Sherman betters his situation, matters escalate and a dramatic and tragic incident occurs. Published in 1961, this story is set in a small town in southern USA. The overt story concerns race, justice and to some extent mortality, though there are plenty of other threads. However, it's the examination of the protagonists' views on race that are most interesting and, to some extent troubling, especially to the modern reader as the N word and variants are used quite often, albeit as a noun/statement, rather than necessarily as an insult. As with all her writing, this is distinctively McCullers, with a lovely, lyrical feel (she was a trained musician). For nine years Carson McCullershas been silent. She is the author of some of the most piercing fiction published in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [mentioned at top], there were also A Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Ballad of the Sad Café.Judge Clane, the town's leading citizen and former congressman, longs for the old ways of the South, but also mourns the loss of his wife and son, the latter who committed suicide. John Huston directed Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. People shot some of the film in city of New York and on Long Island, where the Army permitted Huston to use an abandoned installation. People filmed many of the interiors and some of the exteriors in Italy. "I first met Carson McCullers during the war when I was visiting Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith in upstate New York," said Huston in An Open Book (1980). Kitabın ilginç bulduğum bir özelliği de bir kadın yazar tarafından yazılmış "erkekler" romanı olması. Bütün ana karakterler erkek, hatta düzenli olarak bahsedilen iki kadın karakter var galiba -Malone'un karısı ve Yargıcın hizmetçisi-. Bu iki karakter de güçlü kadınlar olarak görünse de kitabın ele aldığı meselelerle ilgili düşüncelerini çok fazla duyamamamız üzücü. Ancak bir kadın yazarın farklı yaşlarda erkek karakterleri bu kadar başarılı yazmış olması ise hayranlık uyandırıcı. Al final nos queda una sensación de que las personas buenas con ideas erróneas e inflexibles, también pueden provocar mucho daño a su alrededor, y esto lo hace Carson de una manera casi sin esfuerzo, aún cuando este libro está un poco alejado de sus personajes marginados, sus escenarios melancólicos, sigue siendo un gran trabajo aunado al echo que lo escribió estando ya muy enferma.

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The book differs appreciably from McCullers' earlier novels. It contains, to be sure, the theme which has always been at the center of her work—man's loneliness and the eternal flaw in the machinery of love. The judge's son, we learn, turned against him; Jester's admiring devotion toward Sherman is received with chilling condescension or rudeness; Malone suffers from his complete spirtual isolation; and Sherman tries to cover up his by boasting of mythical travels, sexual conquests, and experineces of high living. But another and more helpful theme is dramatized; the novel, as Miss McCullers points out, "is about response and responsibility—of man toward his own livingness." The judge and Sherman, bemused by their obsessions, destroy themselves. But the wretched Malone, when chance singles him out to execute the verdict of the mob against Sherman, finds, for the first time, the courage to act in accordance with his conscience. And Jester emerges from his daydreams and uncertainties with the conviction that he wants to carry on his father's work as a lawyer: to fight on the side of justice against passion. However, there are many levels on which this novel simply does not work, not the least of which is the unbroken feeling that you are standing outside the story just watching it from afar. It is a very emotional subject–Faulkner always makes me squirm and cry, McCullers just made me tense and left me cold. I could not muster sympathy for any of the characters, including the pharmacist, J. T. Malone, who has been handed a death sentence by his doctor when the story begins. Merkezinde ölüm ve ırkçılık olan ama didaktik olmadan birçok konuya değinen, çok güzel yazılmış bir roman Kadransız Saat. She is the woman whom V.S. Pritchett called “the most remarkable novelist … to come out of America for a generation.” During and somewhat before this nine-year interval McCullers suffered a succession of personal catastrophes — the death of her husband and a series of strokes, the last of which partially incapacitated her at the age of twenty-nine.

Durante todo el libro habla de su cocinera como de un familiar, inclusive dice sentir aprecio por ella, pero se horroriza cuando ella le pide seguridad social y un aumento de sueldo y la corre, aún cuando lleva más de 20 años con el. Another aspect of McCullers' writing that I admire is her flawless shifting of points of view between characters. Despite how flawed the characters may be, you cannot help but sympathize with their motives and views through the lenses of their own logic. Besides this, the prose and imagery are incredibly vivid. Sherman is intent on solving the mystery of his parentage; the Judge is involved in it and reveals that he is responsible for the boy being an orphan. A la farmacia de Malone llega siempre el juez Fox Clane, una vieja eminencia en el pueblo sureño en el que habitan, aunque con estragos de una embolia que le dejó inutilizada una mano, el juez sigue manteniendo su prestigio así como sus ideas, vive en su casa con unos viejos criados y su nieto Jester, huérfano de padre y madre. From the original review in The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri), September, 1961, by Webster Schott: