Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Jim Forest <jhforest AT gmail.com>]

dear fellow appreciators of Walker Percy,

 

I’ve just finished rereading “Love in the Ruins” -- my fourth or fifth reading since the book was published in 1971 -- and find it even funnier and more on target than I did during earlier readings.

 

On this reading I was struck by how Percy’s portrait of the devil resembles the devil in Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.” Is that a book Percy was familiar with? Did he ever write about or discuss Bulgakov?

 

Jim Forest

 

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