Still Following Percy

When critics first began to respond to the fiction of Walker Percy, they frequently refarded it as a fiction of ideas. The most significant themes were Percys religious, philosophical, and cultural beliefs. Such conceptions of the man were grounded in his own essays, a genre which in his hands tended toward the impersonal and the abstract.

In time Percy critics like William Rodney Allen began to prove into Percys biography for resources that verified their intense critical speculations about the background of Percys fiction. In his childhood was his fathers suicide and its significant emergence in his fiction. Percys biographers have continued this investigation of the fathers influence. Jay Tolson deftly represent the theme of the paternal death as a vacuum Percy felt throughout his life, while Bertram Wyatt-Brown studied the Percy family ethos, which he showed to be shadowed for two hundred years by high expectations, depression, and self-destruction.

Now, in Still Fol