Notes for a Novel about the End of the World
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1975
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Percy, Walker. “Notes for a Novel about the End of the World.” In his The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 101-18. p. 101 “A serious novel about the destruction of the United States and the end of the world should perform the function of prophecy in reverse. The novelist writes about the coming end in order to warn about present ills and so avert the end.”
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p. 101 “A serious novel about the destruction of the United States and the end of the world should perform the function of prophecy in reverse. The novelist writes about the coming end in order to warn about present ills and so avert the end.”