Aug 11, 2021
“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved
U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing
Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the
question came to me: has it happened at last?”
So wonders Dr. Tom More, a descendant of the great English
martyr, in the first sentence of Walker Percy’s third novel,
Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at Time
near the End of the World.
Written in 1971, this prophetic work presents a world
startlingly like our own. Today’s guest, literary scholar Jessica
Hooten Wilson, joins the show to give a general introduction to
Percy and discuss aspects of what is for many his most beloved
novel, Love in the Ruins, which she describes as a
“panoramic satire” indicating that modernity’s “lost sense of self
makes it impossible to live the good life”.
Topics include:
Links
Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins https://www.amazon.com/Love-Ruins-Walker-Percy/dp/0312243111
Jessica Hooten Wilson https://jessicahootenwilson.com/
JHW, Reading Walker Percy’s Novels
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Walker-Percys-Novels-Jessica/dp/0807168777
JHW, Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for
Influence
https://www.amazon.com/Dostoevsky-Influence-Literature-Religion-Postsecular/dp/0814213499
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