Aug 11, 2021
“Now in these dread latter days of the previous violent beloved
U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing
Western world I got here to myself in a grove of younger pines and the
query got here to me: has it occurred eventually?”
So wonders Dr. Tom Extra, a descendant of the good English
martyr, within the first sentence of Walker Percy’s third novel,
Love within the Ruins: The Adventures of a Dangerous Catholic at Time
close to the Finish of the World.
Written in 1971, this prophetic work presents a world
startlingly like our personal. Right this moment’s visitor, literary scholar Jessica
Hooten Wilson, joins the present to provide a basic introduction to
Percy and talk about points of what’s for a lot of his most beloved
novel, Love within the Ruins, which she describes as a
“panoramic satire” indicating that modernity’s “misplaced sense of self
makes it not possible to reside the great life”.
Matters embrace:
- How Percy’s Southernity knowledgeable his fiction
- His eager and ruthless commentary of race relations
- His recurring commentary on the trendy disjunction between thoughts
and physique, what protagonist Tom Extra calls oscillation between the
angelic and the bestial - His use of apocalyptic themes
- His therapy of affection between women and men
- The lasting significance of his work
Hyperlinks
Walker Percy, Love within the Ruins https://www.amazon.com/Love-Ruins-Walker-Percy/dp/0312243111
Jessica Hooten Wilson https://jessicahootenwilson.com/
JHW, Studying Walker Percy’s Novels
https://www.amazon.com/Studying-Walker-Percys-Novels-Jessica/dp/0807168777
JHW, Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Seek for
Affect
https://www.amazon.com/Dostoevsky-Affect-Literature-Faith-Postsecular/dp/0814213499
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