“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”

About Walker Percy

Author • American

Walker Percy was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. He is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the U.S....