The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961. It won the U.S. National Book Award. Time included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The …
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The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961. It won the U.S. National Book Award. Time included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Moviegoer sixtieth on its list of the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century. It is published in the UK by Methuen.The novel is heavily influenced by the existentialist themes of authors like Søren Kierkegaard, whom Percy read extensively. Unlike many dark didactic existentialist novels (including Percy's later work), The Moviegoer has a light poetic tone. It was Percy's first, most famous, and most widely praised novel, and established him as one of the major voices in Southern literature. The novel also draws on elements of Dante by paralleling the themes of Binx Bolling's life to that of the narrator of the Divine Comedy. In addition to its existentialist character, the novella is also deeply phenomenological.
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- BNF ID:
- 12046562n
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English language
Published March 29, 2011 by Open Road Media.
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- 978-1-4532-1625-5Copied ISBN!
The Moviegoer
Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1977 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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- 978-0-436-36662-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 471713877
The Moviegoer
mass market paperback, 212 pages
English language
Published March 12, 1988 by Ivy Books.
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- 978-0-8041-0290-2Copied ISBN!
The Moviegoer
audio cd
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2000 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
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- 978-0-7861-9925-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43824010
The moviegoer
229 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1995 by Minerva.
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- 978-0-7493-9505-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 33407175
The moviegoer.
241 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1961 by Knopf.
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- 978-0-394-43703-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 38915230
The Moviegoer
241 pages
English language
Published June 30, 1961 by Knopf.
- OCLC Number:
- 4170106
The moviegoer
242 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1996 by Fawcett Columbine.
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- 978-0-449-91170-9Copied ISBN!
Moviegoer
241 pages
English language
Published July 29, 1998 by Vintage International.
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- 978-0-375-70196-2Copied ISBN!
Moviegoer
256 pages
English language
Published July 29, 2004 by Methuen.
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- 978-0-413-77327-2Copied ISBN!
The moviegoer
176 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1985 by Panther.
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- 978-0-586-06414-6Copied ISBN!
The Moviegoer
mp3 cd
English language
Published March 1, 2001 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
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- 978-0-7861-9662-3Copied ISBN!
The moviegoer
English language
Published July 1, 1980 by Avon Books.
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- 978-0-380-47076-1Copied ISBN!
The moviegoer.
241 pages
English language
Published July 1, 1973 by Knopf.
- OCLC Number:
- 1283274
The Moviegoer
242 pages
Published Feb. 1, 1967 by Farrar Straus Giroux.
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- 978-0-374-50596-7Copied ISBN!
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