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Publication, Except for That Already Copyrighted, May Be Freely Repro­ Previous Lecturers Have Been Lionel Trilling, Erik H NATIONALHumanities ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES VOLUME 10 NUMBER 3 • MAY/JUNE 1989 Jefferson L ecturer Editor's Note Walker Percy This issue of Humanities looks at the life and work of novelist Walker Percy, who has been chosen as the 1989 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities. He is the eighteenth recipient of the honor, which is the highest official award the federal government bestows for distinguished achievement in the humanities. Percy has been described as both a master storyteller and a diagnostician of the human soul. For the past four decades, after giving up a career in med­ icine, Percy has been writing about the search for self in a vein that is at once Novelist Walker Percy, the 1989 Jefferson Lec­ comic, acerbic, and tragic. "An extraordinary paradox became clear—" Percy turer, in his study in Covington, Louisiana. writes—"that the more science had progressed and even as it had benefited (© Photo by Curt Richter) man, the less it said about what it is like to be a man living in the world." His first published novel, The Moviegoer, appeared in 1961 and won the Humanities National Book Award the next year. Since then there have been The Last Gen­ A bimonthly review published by the tleman (1966), Love in the Ruins (1971), Lancelot (1977), The Second Coming National Endowment for the Humanities (1980), and The Thanatos Syndrome (1987), along with two nonfiction works, The Message in the Bottle (1975), and Lost in the Cosmos (1983). Chairman: Lynne V. Cheney Director, Communications Policy: "His works," says NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney, "are important not Marguerite Hoxie Sullivan only for their outstanding literary merit but also for their ethical and philo­ Editor: Mary Lou Beatty sophical dimensions. Percy's writings challenge us to hold fast to love and Assistant Editor: James S. Turner tradition in a world where moral choices are increasingly complex." Production Editor: Scott Sanborn Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916, and with his two Production Assistant: Susan Querry younger brothers grew up in the home of his Uncle Will in Greenville, Mis­ Editorial Assistant: Kristen Hall sissippi. Percy attended the University of North Carolina and Columbia Uni­ Research Assistant: Ellen Marsh versity's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; it was while in­ Marketing Director: Joy Evans terning there at Bellevue Hospital that he contracted tuberculosis. A long Editorial Board: recuperation began, during which Percy began studying existentialism and Marjorie Berlincourt, Harold Cannon, developed the overriding interest that took him from medicine into writing. Richard Ekman, Donald Gibson, He and his wife Bunt have lived in Covington, Louisiana, since the 1940s. Guinevere Griest, Jerry Martin Their two daughters, now grown, live nearby. Design: Hausmann Graphic Design, Inc. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the The opinions and conclusions expressed in National Institute of Arts and Letters. Humanities are those of the authors and do not Percy was chosen for the annual honor by the National Council on the Hu­ necessarily reflect Endowment policy. Material manities, the presidentially appointed advisory body of the Endowment. appearing in this publication, except for that already copyrighted, may be freely repro­ Previous lecturers have been Lionel Trilling, Erik H. Erikson, Robert Penn duced. Please notify the editor in advance so Warren, Paul A. Freund, John Hope Franklin, Saul Bellow, C. Vann Wood­ that appropriate credit can be given. The ward, Edward Shils, Barbara Tuchman, Gerald Holton, Emily T. Vermeule, Chairman of the Endowment has determined that the publication of this periodical is neces­ Jaroslav Pelikan, Sidney Hook, Cleanth Brooks, Leszek Kolakowski, Forrest sary in the transaction of the public business McDonald, and Robert Nisbet. required by law of this agency. Use of funds for printing this periodical has been approved by the director of the Office of Management —Mary Lou Beatty and Budget through September 1992. Send re­ quests for subscriptions and other communi­ cations to the editor, Humanities, National En­ dowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylva­ nia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. Telephone 202/786-0435. Annual subscription rate: $9. (USPS 521-090) ISSN 0018-7526. 2 MAY/JUNE 1989 Contents A Literature of Ideas Walker Percy: In Celebration by Cleanth Brooks. The themes and 5 literary style of this year's Jefferson Lecturer. Questions They Never Asked Me by Walker Percy. A candid self­ 9 interview on the art of novel writing and philosophic matters. The Unpeaceable Kingdom by James H. Justus. The tension 13 between conscience and race in southern literature. The Relational Kierkegaard by Hrach Gregorian. A rethinking of 18 Kierkegaard's theory of life stages. Charles S. Peirce: An American Original by Diana Pabst. A new 19 edition of the writings of America's most versatile philosopher. A Cautionary Tale: Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome by Phil 32 McCombs. An interview about the novel's "subversive message." Humanizing the Sciences Biology and Human Affairs by Leon R. Kass, M.D. How the 21 pursuit of knowledge in the life sciences affects the conduct of life. Bridging the Two Cultures by James S. Turner. An undergraduate 25 program at Cornell brings together scientists and humanists. Other Features Photo Essay: Alabama's Heartland by Frances Osborn Robb. A 28 photography exhibition on Alabama as a microcosm of the South. In View of Home by Joseph H. Brown. A discussion series in 30 Alabama examines the ethos of the land in southern literature. 31 Calendar The Humanities Guide Newly Revised Publication Subvention Guidelines, 35. Current NEH Fellowship Grants, 36. Deadlines, 46. HUMANITIES 3 WALKER PERCY BY CLEANTH BROOKS ROM ALMOST THE begin­ Columbia University. He is a Roman In view of some of the things I ning, Walker Percy has elicited Catholic convert. He is an artist, a mean to say about Percy in what fol­ Fquestions and called attention literary artist, and more particularly lows, I want to ask my reader to put to all sorts of exciting problems, a novelist. It is rare to find a person aside certain falsifying notions that some of them highly contemporary so widely informed about scientific abound in American thought: name­ problems, and problems not easily and artistic matters, and so well ly, that a religious man who is happy solved—indeed, perhaps, insoluble. equipped to deal with the presti­ doesn't take his religion seriously; He has often been interviewed. gious matters of the hard sciences, that to hold transcendental beliefs Some of the questions put to him as well as psychiatry and semiotics. implies that one has evaded the great have had to do with matters of per­ To describe Percy in such terms as intellectual issues of our day; and sonal affairs—with Percy's own life, these, however, is to risk distorting that to be able to see stable relation­ his family background, his modes of the man and thus gravely falsifying ships among serious events means writing, and so forth. But nearly all the kind of human being that he is. that one lacks an adventurous mind. of the questions get quickly into In spite of his solid learning and his Percy is in his own terms a very se­ more general matters: the South, old deep convictions about mankind and rious man; yet, nevertheless, he is and new, questions having to do man's position in the universe, witty, easy, and gracious. with race, with religion, and espe­ Walker Percy is no sharp-featured Percy is especially concerned with cially with the relation of science to dogmatist who peers out on our the state of American culture, which secularism, and the state of our pres­ world with a grim and austere gaze. he finds in very bad state indeed, ent culture. Topics like alienation On the contrary, he impresses one not that he is hopeless about Amer­ and loneliness, and the breakdown as the most amiable of men, courte­ ica or Western culture, but he is of the older institutions, such as ous, pleasant, and civilized. He puts completely aware of the difficulty of marriage, the family, and the co­ the visitor at ease at once. So it was restoring it to good health. He is in­ hesive social community, have come on my first meeting with him in the tensely interested in what is hap­ in for a good deal of questioning. early 1960s, soon after the publica­ pening to our culture under the One can think of a number of people tion of his first novel. pressure of ideas of great power, in the United States who share his I remember well that first visit to though ideas, he would say, much concerns with the problems of our his pleasant house just outside the misunderstood and misapplied. One culture and who recognize their se­ little town of Covington, Louisiana, might argue that his real problem as riousness, people whose notions of across Lake Pontchartrain from the a novelist is to keep the novel, under what needs to be done bear some re­ city of New Orleans. He and his his constant emphasis on the idea, semblance at least to Percy's own. wife—who always went by her nick­ from leveling out into a tract. But they rarely command Percy's au­ name Bunt, just as my wife, a New The most captivating aspect of Per­ dience, in size or in the special quali­ Orleans girl, always clung to hers— cy's work is the sheer enjoyment of ty of his mind. had found what seemed an ideal re­ reading his account of the life Percy is a highly interesting man.
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