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The Moviegoer

by Walker Percy

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Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Original publication date

1961-05-15 [1961]

People/Characters

Binx Bolling

Important places

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Louisiana, USA

Louisiana Bayou

Feliciana Parish, New Orleans, USA

East Feliciana, New Orleans, USA

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Important events

Related movies

Awards and honors

National Book Award (Fiction, 1962)

Time's All-Time 100 Novels selection

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Board's List, 60)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 49)

Guardian 1000 (Family and self)

Epigraph

... the specific character of

despair is precisely this: it

is unaware of being despair.

Søren Kierkegaard,

The Sickness Unto Death

Dedication

IN GRATITUDE TO W.A.P.

First words

This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch.

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