Matt Axvig introduces us to Walker Percy’s first novel in the latest from Veritas Journal, “The Moviegoer: Suburbia, the Search, and Binx Bolling’s Existential Homelessness.”
If you are looking for some Lenten reading, this contemporary classic (and winner of the National Book Award) just might fit the bill.
“I don’t want to get adjusted to this world.” – Iris DeMentIris DeMent The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death Though the movies are “on to the quest, says Binx Bolling, they screw it up.” Consider th…