EP 37: Engaging the Existential in Walker Percy's THE MOVIEGOER
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The episode discusses Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer and its existential themes through the character of Binx Bolling.
Send us Fan Mail Walker Percy's 1961 debut novel The Moviegoer---which shocked the literary world when it came out of nowhere to win the National Book Award against some stiff competition---may strike contemporary readers as an elusive novel. The first-person, present-tense voice feels contemporary enough, but the narrator, the New Orleans stockbroker John Bickerson "Binx" Bolling, isn't a rebel without a cause, a Bohemian adventurer, or an angry young man like many heroes of the Eisenhower/K...
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