Walker Percy is supposed to be a "Southern" writer and he is so in many ways. But still there is more Kafka and Kierkegaard in him than Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, especially in this first novel that won him the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962.
"The Moviegoer" is the story of Binx Bolling, a well-to-do stock broker down in New Orleans with nothing much to worry about – at the surface. He is a well-educated, well-mannered 30 year old single man who enjoys going to the movies and serial-dating his secretaries. Continue Reading
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