Walker Percy

Couronné du prix Pulitzer en 1981, le chef-d'œuvre de J. K. Toole est le roman d'une dégénérescence ou de la renaissance d'un personnage hors norme...

À trente ans passés, Ignatus vit... Lire la suite

"Parachutez L'Étranger de Camus du côté de La Nouvelle-Orléans, donnez-lui beaucoup d'humour, faites de lui un cinéphile invétéré, et vous obtiendrez le portrait-robot du héros de ce roman, Binx Bolling." (André Clavel). Pour inaugurer cette... Lire la suite

Walker Percy décrivait «L'Amour parmi les ruines» comme les aventures d'un mauvais catholique en des temps proches de la fin du monde. C'est la fin de l'ère automobile. L'herbe dévore les chaussées lézardées, les motels en ruine retournent au... Lire la suite

Percy's stirring sequel to Love in the Ruins follows Tom More's redemptive mission to cure the mysterious ailment afflicting the residents of his hometown
Dr. Tom More returns to his parish in Louisiana determined to live a simpler life. Fresh... Lire la suite

A "brilliant and hilarious" novel of the end times in America and one psychiatrist's quest to save mankind, from a New York Times–bestselling author ( Dallas Morning News). The United States seems to be on the brink of catastrophe. From the... Lire la suite

"A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess." ( Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the... Lire la suite

Un homme amoureux découvre que son épouse escroque les sentiments. Lire la suite

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”-The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy... Lire la suite

A successful man's midlife crisis may just provide a twisted path to happiness in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Last Gentleman. Now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a... Lire la suite

National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this "brilliant" novel by the author of The Moviegoer ( Time). Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York... Lire la suite

Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: "His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening" ( Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy's death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers... Lire la suite

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Moviegoer: "These essays . . . have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight" ( The New Republic). Before winning the National Book Award for fiction in 1962, Walker Percy was an... Lire la suite

"A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling." — The New York Times Book Review
Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans... Lire la suite

Un homme amoureux découvre que son épouse escroque les sentiments. Lire la suite