Walker Percy
Walker Percy was a Catholic Southern novelist who drew on existentialism and Christian theology to write diagnostic novels about the spiritual malaise of modern America. The Moviegoer won the National Book Award.
Works
- The MoviegoerNovel of a young man searching for meaning through cinema and sexual encounters in New Orleans
- The Last GentlemanNovel following a young man confronting modern alienation and spiritual emptiness in the South
- Love in the RuinsSatirical novel of a doctor's utopian experiment collapsing amid desire and modern chaos
- LancelotMonologue of a man confessing his descent from idealism into obsession and violence
- The Second ComingNovel of a man's spiritual crisis and quest for authentic faith in the modern age