[percy-l] Percy & Camus?

Doug Brown wply1223 at gmail.com
Sun May 15 14:28:30 EDT 2022


Michael,

Percy begins this 1977 NYT interview (promoting Lancelot) by saying Camus
was more of an influence on him than Faulkner. Interesting.

Doug Brown

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/20/archives/a-talk-with-walker-percy-walker-percy.html

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 1:14 PM RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell at msn.com>
wrote:

> Oh yes! Camus was definitely an influence on Percy, as was existentialism
> in general. I would argue that Marcel and Heidegger were greater influences
> and that in a sense his dialectic with Sartre was even a more powerful
> force than Camus. On the other hand, Camus’s argument on suicide had a
> profound impact on Percy’s life. Not just his thought or his fiction, but
> how he managed to continue to live, to endure Wednesday afternoons, and to
> rise about the death-longing that had plagued his family. Thinking about it
> more fully, I recant the earlier statement which placed other
> existentialists ahead of Camus. I seem to remember *The Fall *being an
> influence on *Lancelot *along with Dostoyevsky’s *Notes from the
> Underground*.
>
> Thanks for the prompt that allowed for a good mental romp through lots of
> Percy related things!
>
> Rhonda
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 15, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Michael Martin Serafin <
> michael_serafin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
> It is my understanding that this month Camus' "The Stranger" turns 80.
> Was Camus an influence on Percy?
>
> Michael Martin Serafin
> Chicopee, MA.
>
>
>
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