The Moviegoer

Summary

Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, drifts through the week before Mardi Gras absorbed in films, women, and what he calls 'the search' for some authentic ground beneath ordinary life. Percy filters Southern manners through the lens of European existentialism, producing a cool, ironic, deeply philosophical first-person voice. The book opened a new path for Southern fiction that was as concerned with Kierkegaard as with kinship.