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Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays de Walker Percy

Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays

Autor Walker Percy Patrick Samway
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2000
At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312254193
ISBN-10: 0312254199
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Picador USA.
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Walker Percy wrotes several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time.

Recenzii

"These moving pieces of nonfiction, some quite brief and terse, others more relaxed and spacious, offer 'signposts' that will help us understand not only the 'strange land' that is late-20th-century America, but the extraordinary mind of an especially alert and knowing observer."--Robert Coles, " Boston Sunday Globe""""Tart, lively, and likeable. You come away admiring not only the writer's sense and sensibility, his sophistication and intelligence, but, more important, his wisdom and courage.""--"George Core, "The Washington Post Book World""Percy is always intelligent, always civilized, never blind to his opponents' point of view."--Evelyn Toynton, " The New York Times Book Review""Remarkably revealing . . . Signposts shows Percy in all of his moral and intellectual grandeur . . . What shines through, however, is Percy's fundamental decency, his compassiona for the human predicament, and his abundant love for humanity."--Jonathan Kirsch, "Los Angeles Times"

Cuprins

Why I Live Where I Live
New Orleans Mon Amour
The City of the Dead
Going Back to Georgia
Mississippi: The Fallen Paradise
Uncle Will
Uncle Will's House
A Better Louisiana
The American War
Red, White, and Blue-Gray
Stoicism in the South
A Southern View
The Southern Moderate
Bourbon
Is a Theory of Man Possible?
Naming and Being
The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?
Novel-Writing in an Apocalyptic Time
How to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and Catholic
From Facts to Fiction
Physician as Novelist
Herman Melville
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise
Eudora Welty in Jackson
Foreword to A Confederacy of Dunces
Rediscovering A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Movie Magazine: A Low "Slick"
Accepting the National Book Award for The Moviegoer
Concerning Love in the Ruins
The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry
The Culture Critics
The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind
Culture, the Church, and Evangelization
Why Are You a Catholic?
A "Cranky Novelist" Reflects on the Church
The Failure and the Hope
A View of Abortion, with Something to Offend Everybody
Foreword to The New Catholics
If I Had Five Minutes with the Pope
An Unpublished Letter to the Times
Another Message in the Bottle
The Holiness of the Ordinary
An Interview with Zoltan Abadi-Nagi
Questions They Never Asked Me
Bibliography
Notes