Assertion: moviegoer | /r/CapableOf | respond to late 1950s alienation
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text: The Moviegoer was Walker Percy's first novel, published in 1961, the story of a New Orleans stockbroker suffering his own version of a lowercase-e existential crisis, responding as he does to late 1950s alienation coming from a changing world, a changing South, and a changing city by abandoning a more traditional search for meaning in favour of the immediacy of entertainments such as movies.