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SANDESANILAYAM PRESS
George Madathiparampil
Walker Percy is a noted writer of contemporary American fiction, and his first novel The Moviegoer was a National Book Award winner. The citation of the Award points out that Percy "examines the delusions and hallucinations and the day dreams that afflict those who abstain from the customary ways of making do." In his subsequent novels, Percy has gone beyond these abstainers and has shown what is wrong with modern society itself.
The concept of prophecy in the Biblical sense is the best ideological framework for understanding Percy's novels. Madathiparampil delineates the features of the prophetic dimension of Percy's works and demonstrates that it is possible for a writer to offer Christian values as an integral and necessary part of modern life, without in any way appearing didactic or overtly moralistic.
Percy, through his novels, passes a Christian judgment on modern society and offers Christian values as the right alternative to antagonistic philosophies. This work is thus a corrective against some of the critical analyses of Percy's works which have failed to take into account their prophetical dimension.
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George Madathiparampil teaches English at St. Berchman's College, Changanacherry, Kerala, India. He received his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America (1981). He has taught at Indiana State University and The Catholic University of America and has done editorial work for The Black American Literature Forum of Indiana State University and The Excelsior of St. Berchman's College. He has served as a Campus Minister at Indiana State University and The Catholic University of America.
Publication Date: 1982