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 |
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— | — | related >> studied at >> studied medicine at | University of North Carolina |
1961 | — | related >> won | National Book Award for Fiction |
Person
Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
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— | — | related >> related to >> cousin of | Percy, William Alexander |
Work
Start | End | Other relation type | Related Work |
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— | — | was referred to in | The Regional Writer |
— | — | author of | The Moviegoer |
1966 | — | author of | The Last Gentleman |
1971 | — | author of | Love in the Ruins |
1980 | — | author of | The Second Coming |
1987 | — | author of | The Thanatos Syndrome |
— | — | appears/appeared in | Conversations with Walker Percy |
— | — | appears/appeared in | More Conversations with Walker Percy |
— | — | author of | The Message in the Bottle, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
— | — | author of | Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book |