Walker Percy (1916–1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a US senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles—including the classic novel The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the National Book Award—and fifteen works of nonfiction. In 2005, Time magazine named The Moviegoer one of the best English-language books published since 1923
Winner of the 1961 National Book Award
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.
The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
从哥伦比亚大学医学院取得研究生学位之后,沃克•珀西时常给天主教杂志《大众福利》写些神学与哲学的小文章。60年代之前,他零星地写过一两个故事,从没有想过要发表。如珀西后来所说,“生活比艺术更奇妙——通常更几何化,我的生命正好一分为二,前一半在美国南部和医学中...
评分看完这本书,马上想到一部电影《革命之路》,或许革命之路里的凯特温斯莱特是女版的比克保林。区别是小说更像是沉静的内省,而电影更富悲剧意味的,情节更戏剧化。 大学时代的我很迷茫,就去读各式各样的书;后来喜欢上看电影也是把它当成人生的样式来考察、参照与思考。看了这...
评分读Walker Percy的《看电影的人》,很感动。 文字优美深邃,透着对人生的冷澈顿悟和悲凉情怀。如果一个人30岁就看透人生,生活将会没有激情吗?也许,“我把春天抱在怀里,紧紧地抱住它,心里升起一股悲哀”。金钱和美色似乎都不能“打动”他:“美色,单是追求美色,就是对上...
评分这本书很好看,没有什么吸引人的情节,却总能引起我的共鸣。 书中有的是两个与现实格格不入的人,一个主人公比克,他总是在自省,观察一切,寻找什么,在寻找生活的意义吧,这本来是个没有答案的问题。他没有信仰,批判一切,嘲笑一切。一个靠自杀活下去的他的表妹凯特,但...
评分没看不出“自省”的主题与电影有多大的关系,事实上,连提到电影的地方都很少;但阅读这本书的过程却很是奇妙:一方面相当流畅,印满铅字的纸张水一般一页一页地滑过;另一方面,却让人出现严重的记忆障碍,例如那些接踵而至的人物,是被珀西突兀地添加进来的呢,还是在纷...
开头觉得很普通…
评分難以消解的惆悵。無疾而終的存在朝聖,“a (southern) novel of New Orleans where the protagonist winds up missing Mardi Gras for a stockbrokers' convention in Chicago”, 如青年作者本人驅車拜見福克納 卻在他家門口怯場而不敢會面。沒有天啟 只溶解在平淡的"everydayness".
评分16416被石坚教授说得神乎其神的一本书,个人感觉还好
评分无聊的家庭琐事的那一部分我不是很喜欢,但是还是有一些内容击中我的。。
评分无聊的家庭琐事的那一部分我不是很喜欢,但是还是有一些内容击中我的。。
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