Held at The West Feliciana Courthouse - 11578 Ferdinand Street, St Francisville

me and location of presentation TBAPresented by Michael Kobre, Dana Professor of English, Queens University of Charlotte

In all of our discussions of Walker Percy’s philosophical ideas and moral convictions, we sometimes lose sight of his art as a novelist. But if we page through either of the collections of his interviews we’ll find almost as many references to writers like John Updike, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Ralph Ellison, and Kurt Vonnegut as we will to philosophers like Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Marcel. In this talk, I’ll examine Percy’s stature and achievement as a novelist working in the landscape of post-World War II American fiction. We’ll celebrate Percy’s art as a storyteller, a powerfully acute observer, and a dazzling linguistic stylist.