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  • From: "Beck, David A" <dabeck AT iupui.edu>
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:29:04 -0400

Hey Rhonda,

I have to (respectfully, of course) disagree. I was hoping that they weren't going to put Huck Finn as number one. But I completely agree with Absalom being number one; in fact, I'd go as far to say that it is the great American novel. Your description of AKM fits Absalom as well ("the confluence of all American
Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
carrying a piece of it").

That's just my two cents. Both novels are great. But I would have switched Last Gentleman in place of The Moviegoer. (Yes, I think my letter ended up with yours.)

I'm interested in hearing what others think.

-David

Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>:


Thanks Karey. Looks like just about all of WP's fiction got mentioned
(I didn't see Thanatos or LITR but I was skimming--I guess that's 2/3
then). It's hard to argue with #1 and #2 except I'd flip their
order. All the King's Men is the confluence of all American
Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
carrying a piece of it. But that's just me getting a little purple
about it. It just doesn't get better than that, I say. Unfortunately,
my survey must have gotten lost in the mail.

--Rhonda

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in
spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the
faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Walker Percy



From: karey1 AT charter.net
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:18:50 -0400
Subject: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...




















http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/aug/27/best-southern-novels-all-time/



Percy is #6 on this list with ?The Moviegoer,?
but if you click on the link at the bottom of the list, you?ll find
others by him as well, further down.


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