Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher

abstract Allison Alyosha artist Barrett becomes Belle Isle Bouverie Caroline Gordon Catholic character Christ Christian Comeaux comic consciousness culture death demonic Dorn Dostoevsky dream encounter essays Eudora Welty ex-suicide existential faith Father Smith Father Smith's Confession Faulkner feels final Flannery O'Connor human intersubjective interview Ivan jeremiad Jews Karamazov Kierkegaard Kitty Lance Lamar Lance's Lancelot language Last Gentleman listener literary live look Margot meaning Mississippi modern Moviegoer mystery narrative narrator novel novelist patient Percy's fiction person priest Quentin Quentin Compson question reader relationship religious role Sartre says Second Coming seems sense sexual signified Søren Kierkegaard South southern speaks spirit Stoic Stoicism story suicide Sutter symbolic tell tenderness Thanatos Syndrome therapist thing tion tradition transcendent typescript understand University vision Walker Percy Warfield Welty Welty's Will's William William Alexander Percy William Faulkner William Rodney Allen women words writer York