Walker Percy Libri

In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Their letters provide a rich record of an enduring literary and personal friendship. Walker Percy, winner of the National Book Award, wrote six novels, two volumes of philosophical writings, and numerous essays on topics ranging from the aesthetics of bourbon drinking to race and integration in

Exploring themes of spiritual searching and modern angst, this volume compiles three influential works by a Southern physician-turned-novelist. The Moviegoer follows Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker seeking meaning through cinema. The Last Gentleman features a southerner in New York grappling with amnesia and existential dread. Love in the Ruins presents Dr. Thomas More, a psychiatrist confronting a fractured America. Additionally, the collection includes three insightful nonfiction pieces by the author, enhancing the understanding of his literary contributions.

Explores human nature and presents insights on the self and its fears, sexuality, boredom, depression, and other aspects.

La "Banda" è ambientato nella città natale di Toole, New Orleans, e racconta la storia di Ignatius O'Reilly, un personaggio definito da Walker Parcy "senza alcun precedente nella storia della letteratura mondiale". Ignatius, grasso e indolente giovane uomo di talento, laureato in filosofia medievale, se la prende con tutto e con tutti. Accusa il mondo intero di buttare nella spazzatura una vita fatta di TV, musica inascoltabile e fesserie varie. Senonché trascorre lui stesso gran parte della giornata in questo modo. Si ritiene un genio, ma non riesce a produrre nulla di convincente, se non pasticci. La madre lo salva in svariate situazioni, finché un giorno viene arrestato in stato di ubriachezza, e lei cerca di ricoverarlo...

Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degeneration of America. Percy's novel reveals a shining knight for the modern age--a knight not of romance, but of revenge.

Kate's desperate struggles to maintain her sanity force Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.

When Dr. Tom More is released on parole from state prison, he returns to Feliciana, Louisiana, the parish where he was born and bred, where he practiced psychiatry before his arrest. He immediately notices something strange in almost everyone around him: unusual sexual behavior in women patients, a bizarre loss of inhibition, his own wife's extraordinary success as bridge tournaments, during which her mind seems to function like a computer. With the help of his attractive cousin, Dr. Lucy Lipscomb, Dr. More begins to uncover a criminal experimentto "improve" people's behavior by drugging the local water supply. But beyond this scheme are activities so sinister that Dr. More can only wonder if the whole world has gone crazy -- or he has . . .

Der Südstaatler William Barrett lebt relativ ziel- und sorglos in New York. Eines Tages will er im Central Park einen Wanderfalken mit dem Teleskop beobachten. Zufällig sieht er, wie eine Frau eine Nachricht in einer Parkbank versteckt. Sein Interesse ist geweckt, und tatsächlich wird wenig später der »tote Briefkasten« von einer jungen Frau geleert, in die sich William auf den ersten Blick verliebt. Mit der Familie der jungen Frau kehrt er, als Betreuer von deren todkrankem Bruder, in seine Heimat zurück. Mit dieser Heimkehr ist seine Suche nach der Wahrheit über sich und die moderne Welt jedoch nicht abgeschlossen – im Gegenteil: Er muß sie, in seiner zurückhaltenden Art, gegen die zahlreichen Möglichkeiten, sich in der ziellosen Geschäftigkeit der Gegenwart zu verlieren, behaupten.