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Lancelot ペーパーバック – 1999/9/1
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Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degeneration of America. Percy's novel reveals a shining knight for the modern age--a knight not of romance, but of revenge.
- ISBN-100312243073
- ISBN-13978-0312243074
- 出版社Picador
- 発売日1999/9/1
- 言語英語
- 寸法13.97 x 1.52 x 21.59 cm
- 本の長さ272ページ
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"Eloquent, reckless, accurate, hilarious...plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mysteries toward a final grand puzzle." -Washington Post Book World
"A fine novel...Percy is a seductive writer attentive to sensuous detail, and such a skillful architect of fiction that the very discursiveness of his story informs it with energy and tension." -Newsweek
"A funny and scarifying jeremiad on the modern age. Lancelot is easy to read and hard to forget." -Time
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"A funny and scarifying jeremiad . . . Easy to read and hard to forget." --Time
"Eloquent, reckless, hilarious . . . plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mysteries toward a final grand puzzle." --Washington Post Book World
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Walker Percy is the author of over ten books, many of which were bestsellers, and he is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time.
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The central metaphor is an elegant country home filled with love, betrayal, and ennui, built over a "Christmas tree" -- a complex set of petrochemical valves. This lurking subterranean hell needs only a madman's touch to erupt. A touch provided by the narrator, a man to driven to perform some significant act, even if it's one of pure evil.
The perceptive reader will hear the note of hope at the end of this tale.

Without any "context," I found the book immensely perplexing and deeply disturbing. However, I also remember feeling/thinking in some half-formed way that what I was reading was 1) deeply "real" in the sense of true-to-life-in-the-modern-world and 2) was critically important, though I couldn't have articulated how.
Now, I suppose in the name of fairness, I should note that after finishing "Thanatos," I didn't pick up another Percy book. Perhaps the reason is that I read fiction for relaxation and, if you pay close attention to Walker Percy, there's not much "relaxing" about his insight into the amoral morass of modern society.
However, picking up "Lancelot," I felt very much like I was returning to the same world as "Thanatos," a world where the oft-celebrated hyper-sexualization of society has, instead of liberating us, has driven us to the brink of self-destructive insanity. Lancelot Andrewes Lamar's self-styled "confession" betrays the absolute cognitive failure that has accompanied modernity's rejection of moral authority, typified in this fictitious member of that decaying Louisiana gentry class Percy depicts so well…educated, wealthy, and slowly coming unhinged. That the book is narrated in first-person puts the reader in the very uncomfortable position of being Lance's confessor.
All that I can say is that Lance is a beguiling figure who draws you in. He's been under treatment for an entire year, after all, and is, by all accounts, cured and psychically whole. This final recitation of his family trauma clearly is meant to mark his final healing. However, ever-so-slowly, cracks begin to appear in the façade of Lancelot's sanity. By the end of the story, it appears that he is victim of that most dangerous of all delusions, a rationalized one and, furthermore, by our own sympathy with his story, we, the readers, are implicated in the perversity of his thinking.
There are few writers that I've found who can depict the moral bankruptcy of modernity with as much power as Walker Percy. He has this subtle way of turning the reader's eye inward, moving us gently toward self-reflection rather than judgment. There's been a nearly 25-year-long hiatus in my journey with Walker Percy, but I have a sense that, over the years, I've grown into his works and can see now, with frightening clarity, the monsters that lurk in the shadows of our best selves and societies.
Readers of Walker Percy, beware! Here is a man of deep moral insight and conviction who cuts straight to diseased heart of all that is wicked in our world. And he doesn't have to be "preachy"; he just lets us speak for ourselves and our own words betray our hearts…


