Description
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.
Info
ISBN: 9780312254018
Published Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Picador
Language: English
Page Count: 335
Size: 8.37" l x 5.45" w x 0.90" h
Category
Literary Collections
Subject
Essays