Sam's review
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
Sam's review
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Sam's review
rating:
Binx, Binx, Binx... Jack Bolling. The best novel I've read where virtually nothing happens. Of course, this is speaking purely of the finitude. Binx is surely preparing for great movements in the infinite, which is what this novel is about. It is more concerned with the search than with the finding, like in Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground, man takes a greater joy from the building of a castle than from actually living in it.
This novel borrows HEAVILY from Kierkegaardian Existentialism, beginning with a quote from his Sickness Unto Death and making frequent allusion thereafter to such things as The Rotation Method from Either/Or. This is a very good thing. Percy is able to paint a portrait of an Existentialist who has yet to find his personal morality and ideology, and yet he pictures him not with an overabundance of despair, but with expectancy.
In regards to the novel, Percy is excellent at quickly developing characters, and his female characters are actually more...more
This novel borrows HEAVILY from Kierkegaardian Existentialism, beginning with a quote from his Sickness Unto Death and making frequent allusion thereafter to such things as The Rotation Method from Either/Or. This is a very good thing. Percy is able to paint a portrait of an Existentialist who has yet to find his personal morality and ideology, and yet he pictures him not with an overabundance of despair, but with expectancy.
In regards to the novel, Percy is excellent at quickly developing characters, and his female characters are actually more...more
