Re:Subterranean Treasures: Cormac McCarthy’s late style
by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:19PM
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> Blood Meridian - Hard to describe.
Blood Meridian: easy to describe truthfully, hard to do justice to in that description.
Easy description: A Western. The western. One of the great masterpiece novels. Set in the Texas-Mexico border area, circa 1850, beautifully lyrical writing, but is also an appallingly violent work, certainly the single most bloody book that I have ever read.
Blood Meridian: easy to describe truthfully, hard to do justice to in that description.
Easy description: A Western. The western. One of the great masterpiece novels. Set in the Texas-Mexico border area, circa 1850, beautifully lyrical writing, but is also an appallingly violent work, certainly the single most bloody book that I have ever read.
"A major theme is the warlike nature of man". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian#Violence