American novelist and essayist — author of The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, and Love in the Ruins — who converted to Catholicism after contracting tuberculosis in medical school — the most philosophically sophisticated American Catholic novelist.
Creates American existentialist Catholic fiction — Percy's novels explore the malaise (existential alienation of modern life) from a Catholic perspective; The Moviegoer is the most precise fictional description of modern alienation and the search for meaning.
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