Walker Percy's Bible notes and his fiction: gracious obscenity.(Critical essay)

From: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Wilson, Franklin Arthur | Copyright information

IN The Moviegoer (MG), The Last Gentleman (LG), Love in the Ruins (LR), and The Thanatos Syndrome (TS), Walker Percy uses the unlikely images of a dung beetle, bowel movements, the deaths of children, and even genocide to express the sacramental presence of God in the often traumatic mess of human existence. This article will argue that Percy's use of the grotesquely obscene is explained in part by his reading of the Bible and the notes he made in the Bible and certain other relate...

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