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The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his... read more
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Characters/People edit
- LeRoy Percy Sr.: Add a description of this character.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Mr Kinsella
- Kate Miss Ruby
- Ned Daigle
- Mardi Gras
- Lyell
- Brother Andy
- Mother
- Tillie
- Walker Percy
- D.C. Percy
- Sharon Kincaid
- Mrs Clara James
- Nell Lovell
- William Alexander Percy
- Jules Cutrer
- Stan Shamoun
- Clarence Saunders
- Mr Hebert
- Binx Binx
- Stephanie
- Mrs Cutrer
- Lonnie Smith
- John Bickerson Bolling
- Mr Klostermann
- Dick Powell
- Rollo
- Marcia
- Mr Sartalamaccia
- Merle Oberon
- Scott
- Mr Wade
- Uncle Oscar
- Whipple
- Joyce
- Mercer
- Rex of Mardi Gras
- Duval
- Jake
- Dr Wills
- Clint Walker
- Mathilde
- Mrs Schexnaydre
- Rory Calhoun
- William Holden
- Tessie
- Roy Smith
- Linda
- Harry Stern
- Geiger
- Didi Lovell
- Kate Cutrer
- Aunt Edna
- Alex Bolling
- Akim Tamiroff
- Jackie Dean
- Sam Yerger
- Walter Wade
- Eddie Lovell
- Jane Powell
- Judge Anse
- Margot
- Cousin Em
- Mr Bolling
- Joel Craig
- Harold Graebner
- Sidney Gross of Danziger
- Stanley Kinchen
- LeRoy Percy Jr
- Aunt Emily
- Dr Mink
- BoBo
- Ravaud
Quotes edit
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“To become aware of the possibility of a search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal.
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
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What is a repetition? A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
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What is the malaise? you ask. The malaise is the pain of loss. The world is lost to you, the world and the people in it, and there remains only you and the world and you no more able to be in the world than Banquo’s ghost.
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I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.
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It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt or a neat styrene card with one’s name on it certifying, so to speak, one’s right to exist.
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“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck—people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell’s death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.”
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Organizations edit
First Sentence edit
This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 60 of 93 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List. (authoritative list)
This is book 49 of 98 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: Reader's List. (authoritative list)
This is book 116 of 113 in Book Smart Reading List. (community list)
This book is in TIME Magazine Top 100 English-Language Novels. (community list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 189 of 213 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Walker Percy (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1961
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 242
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1961
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 242
Awards edit
- National Book Award (1962: Fiction, Winner)
- Time 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923-2005
- Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century (#60)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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