Walker Percy (1916–1990)
Auteur de Le Cinéphile
A propos de l'auteur
Walker Percy, May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990 Walker Percy, born in Alabama, raised in Mississippi, and a former resident of Louisiana, was a member of a prominent Southern family who lost his parents at an early age and grew up as the foster son of his father's cousin. Percy graduated from the afficher plus University of North Carolina and received his M.D. from Columbia, but was a nonpracticing physician who devoted much of his life to his writing. Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer (1961), won the 1962 National Book Award, but Charles Poore considers The Last Gentleman (1966) "an even better book." Love in the Ruins (1971) marks a sharp change in method and subject from the first two novels. A doomsday story set "at the end of the Auto Age," it exposes many foibles and abuses in contemporary life through sharp satire and extravagant fantasy. Whereas Love in the Ruins is funny, Percy's next novel, Lancelot (1977) is the rather bleak and pessimistic story of a deranged man who blows up his home when he finds proof of his wife's infidelities and then tells his story in an asylum for the mentally disturbed. Its apocalyptic vision is expressed in a more positive and affirmative way in The Second Coming (1980), which takes its title from the fact that it resurrects the character of Will Barret from The Last Gentleman and locates him, a quarter-century older, finding love and meaning in a cave. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Walker Percy
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other (1975) 477 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Bourbon 2 exemplaires
Souvenirs de l' oncle Will 1 exemplaire
The City of the Dead 1 exemplaire
Percy Walker 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
La conjuration des imbéciles (1980) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 21,606 exemplaires, 477 critiques
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (1941) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 295 exemplaires, 3 critiques
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributeur — 217 exemplaires, 2 critiques
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributeur — 134 exemplaires, 1 critique
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contributeur — 94 exemplaires
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Percy, Walker
- Date de naissance
- 1916-05-28
- Date de décès
- 1990-05-10
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Joseph Benedictine Abbey, St. Benedict, Louisiana, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Covington, Louisiana, USA
- Cause du décès
- prostate cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Athens, Georgia, USA
Greenville, Mississippi, USA
Covington, Louisiana, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (tout afficher 7)
Saranac Lake, New York, USA - Études
- University of North Carolina (BA|1937)
Columbia University (MD|1941) - Professions
- novelist
essayist
physician
teacher - Relations
- Percy, William Alexander (cousin)
Foote, Shelby (friend)
Gordon, Caroline (friend)
Spencer, Elizabeth (friend and colleague) - Organisations
- Order of Saint Benedict (oblate)
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Fellowship of Southern Writers (founding member)
Loyola University of New Orleans
Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Prix et distinctions
- Jefferson Lecture (1989)
T. S. Eliot Award (1988)
Laetare Medal (1989)
St. Louis Literary Award (1986)
Campion Award (1986)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1972) (tout afficher 8)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1972)
National Book Award (1962)
Membres
Discussions
Note from Walker Percy à Deep South (Avril 2013)
Novel about guy who loves the cinema à Name that Book (Septembre 2011)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 12,667
- Popularité
- #1,848
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 167
- ISBN
- 197
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 68