General Info | TEI
| Name | Percy, Walker |
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| Alternative Names | |
| ID | 9087 |
| Gender | male |
| Lifespan | 1916-04-28 - 1990-05-10 |
| Professions | writer (Q36180) |
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| Uri(s) |
https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/9087/ https://d-nb.info/gnd/118912135 |
| Notes | Percy's transatlantic readings of European fiction writers (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy), existential philosophers (Camus, Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Kierkegaard) and philosophers of language had a great impact on his writing where he criticises the shortcomings of the secular modern world as well as "superficial religious practices and dubious trends in organized Christian religion." |
| References | Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar. "Critical Perspectives on Self-Sufficing Humanism in Southern Fiction." Religion in the Secular Age. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW. |
Relations
Institution
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | studied medicine at | University of North Carolina |
| 1961 | — | won | National Book Award for Fiction |
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | related >> related to >> cousin of | Percy, William Alexander |
Work
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | related >> appears/appeared in >> was referred to in | The Regional Writer |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Moviegoer |
| 1966 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Last Gentleman |
| 1971 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Love in the Ruins |
| 1980 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Second Coming |
| 1987 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Thanatos Syndrome |
| — | — | related >> appears/appeared in | Conversations with Walker Percy |
| — | — | related >> appears/appeared in | More Conversations with Walker Percy |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | The Message in the Bottle, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| — | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book |
