Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.\ \ \ The author's first collection of non-fiction comprises 15 essays that combine the...
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In The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy asks a hard question: Why is it that modern people-so educated, so prosperous-are so unhappy and ill at ease in the world? To answer it, he turns to such various yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, the nature of tourism, and the incredible Delta Factor, in which he explains how language is at the heart of human personality. Confronting philosophical quandaries with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with insights into the way that language possesses us all. The New Republic These essays have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight.
\ From the Publisher\ "The Message in the Bottle is a delight . . . a pleasure to read."--Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World \ "Walker Percy has an intellectual range and rigor few American novelists can match."--Thomas Leclair, The New York Times Book Review\ "This book is worth examining for the confusions it reveals about the study of language and about what can be expected from it."--Thomas Nagel, The New York Review of Books\ \ \ \ \ \ \ The New RepublicThese essays have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight.\ \
