More Conversations With Walker Percy

by Percy, Walker; Lawson, Lewis A.; Kramer, Victor A.

• ISBN13: 9780878056231
• ISBN10: 0878056238
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

This collection of interviews supplements "Conversations with Walker Percy" and occasions an additional two dozen pleasurable encounters with Percy. Primarily from the last ten years of Percys life, they show how his presence was stimulating thought in much of humanistic America, in literature, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and in cultural life in general. Although this acclaimed author of "The Moviegoer, Lancelot," and "Love in the Ruins" never overcame his shyness with interviewers, he continued to grant interviews as long as his health permitted. This act of openness illustrates his humility before his ideas and his desire to help others understand them. The interviews in this collection show him at a height when he knew that his illness would not allow him to write any more books, and that the only way to restate his ideas and offer a valediction to the large audience to whom he had always been kind, patient, and appreciative was to speak out. Percy d

Author Biography

Victor A. Kramer is a professor of English at Georgia State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
An Interview with Walker Percy	p. 3
An Interview with Walker Percy	p. 13
Interview	p. 36
An Interview with Walker Percy	p. 44
Surviving His Own Bad Habits: An Interview with Walker Percy	p. 59
American Writer Walker Percy: The Novelist as Searcher	p. 66
A Talk with Walker Percy	p. 72
Interview with Walker Percy	p. 84
Difficult Times	p. 103
A Novelist Views the Novel	p. 108
Walker Percy on the Church, Abortion, Faith, and Nuclear War	p. 113
An Interview with Walker Percy	p. 127
The Art of Fiction XCVII: Walker Percy	p. 134
Interview on Worldnet	p. 156
Moralist of the South	p. 169
In a Calm Setting, He Writes of the Whirling World Beyond	p. 178
A Visitor Interview: Novelist Walker Percy	p. 183
Century of Thanatos: Walker Percy and His Subversive Message	p. 189
At Court with Walker Percy	p. 208
Southern Semiotics: An Interview with Walker Percy	p. 216
Out of the Ruins	p. 226
Walker Percy Talks about Science, Faith, and Fiction	p. 236
Index	p. 243
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