More Conversations with Walker Percy

Name: More Conversations with Walker Percy
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
SKU: 9780878056248
Price: 32.62 EUR
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Автор: Victor A. Kramer, Lewis A. Lawson

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University Press of Mississippi

Наличност: Външен склад

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This collection of interviews supplements Conversations with Walker Percy and occasions an additiona...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Victor A. Kramer, Lewis A. Lawson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1993

страници

277

EAN

9780878056248

ISBN

0878056246

Enbook ID

04751405

Издател

University Press of Mississippi

Теглоt

414

Размери

229 x 154 x 19

Пълно описание

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 Percy's 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

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