Introducing Walker Percy: The Moviegoer - Farrell O'Gorman
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- March 2, 2013
University of North Carolina
Pleasants Room, Wilson Library
FARRELL O'GORMAN, a native of South Carolina, is Professor of English at Belmont Abbey College. His publications include a critical study, "Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction" (LSU Press, 2004). His short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in such venues as Image, Shenandoah, and Best Catholic Writing 2007. He has also published articles on American and contemporary literature in Blackwell's Companion to the Regional Literatures of America and elsewhere.
I lived in Colorado, where I'd moved the year before. I met up with a friend for an afternoon of garage-sale browsing. We ended up--my friend, his girlfriend and I--at the home of an acquaintance of my friend to everyone's surprise. There it was, a copy of the Moviegoer--falling apart, lying on a table-- the owner assured me it was good. It couldn't have been any more understated. That's how I came across a book that has changed my life. So, I have to acknowledge the importance of how a book is encountered.
Valuable insight for lovers of Walker Percy & Southern lit.!
The way I encountered the name Walker Percy was in the biographical commentary in a monthly Catholic publication called, "Give Us this Day" published by Liturgical Press (Mary Stommes, Editor) dated May 28th, 2016. "Though all his novels were shaped by a Catholic understanding of reality, Percy believed it was no use simply to repeat pious verities" This quotation by biographer led me to pursue more on Walker Percy. I will continue my search on his life's views.
Thank you for this quote about ,,pious verities''. From my experince, this is basic problem with modern catholic fiction: when it try by good, it stop speak pious verities with teriballe consequnces, that it left reader with ,,inpious'' doubts, not with Truth. If good literature cannot said truth once more, because saing truth is always needed, in other case we forget it, then maybe no worth in reading literature at all? If so, no big deal for me.
Well done!
Thanks. I'm using this for a final essay on the Moviegoer.