Walker Percy's 1961 National Book Award-winning debut novel — about Binx Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who attends movies compulsively while searching for meaning — the most philosophically sophisticated American Southern novel.
Creates the existentialist Southern novel — The Moviegoer introduces the 'malaise' (existential alienation) as the defining condition of modern American life; its protagonist's use of movies to escape the 'everydayness' of existence is the most precise novelistic description of modern alienation.
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