现代图书馆评选20世纪100部最佳小说之一，本书荣膺美国国家图书奖！ 只要是经典，就不会被遗忘，1961年出版以来首次与中国读者见面！ 比克·保林是一个小股票债券经纪人。他在新奥尔郊区过着平静的生活，热衷于看电影，与女秘书谈情说爱。但是，很快他发现自己所要追寻的是某种更为重要的东西，这种东西将使他一生都在对抗时光的流逝。随着一个特别的忏悔日的到来，他终于找寻到了自己所希冀的东西，并与一个他不曾料想过的女人结成旅伴…… 比克·保林，一个忠实的电影迷，他相信电影的意义在于自省。那么，究竟什么是自省呢？自省的目的是为了有所知，还是因为害怕暴露自己的无知？比克·保林，一位忠实的自省者，他最终会不会也为平淡的生活所淹没，又会不会因自省往往以绝望而放弃呢？电影的意义在于自省，而生活本身又会不会是一部更加真实的影象呢？或许，透过电影与自省中的比克·保林，这些疑问将会得到新的解读与诠释。 充满新奇、智慧和对人类命运的深切关注……沃克·珀西具有一种罕见的才能，可以塑造出前所未见的独特人物。——《时代》周刊 这是一本新奇和满含温情的书，洋溢着热情和智慧的想象。——《旧金山纪事报》 这是一部杰出的小说……沃克·珀西的笔触触及到了人类许多隐秘的情怀。——《哈珀斯》杂志

Winner of the 1961 National Book Award The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback. The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.