Why did Walker Percy call his second novel The Last Gentleman? I can think of a few reasons, none of them perfectly satisfactory. A gentleman is a man of no profession. A gentleman is, by the oldest and strictest definition, useless. Williston Bibb Barrett, the hero of this existential picaresque published 60 years ago, is […]
Why did Walker Percy call his second novel The Last Gentleman? I can think of a few reasons, none of them perfectly satisfactory. A gentleman is a man of no profession. A gentleman is, by the oldest and strictest definition, useless. Williston Bibb Barrett, the hero of this existential picaresque published 60 years ago, is […]
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