I actually just finished The Road this morning. It was meh.
When a Salman Rushdie type or a Tom Robbins type goes all florid on you you can tell it's because they genuinely enjoy playing with language, which I respect even when it doesn't work (which is often enough, in the case of those two.) I doubt McCarthy would use the words 'enjoy' or 'playing' to describe any part of his process. He writes like a witch put a curse on his family three hundred years ago and the only way to lift it is to use every word in the English language at least once in a published novel.
He writes like a witch put a curse on his family three hundred years ago and the only way to lift it is to use every word in the English language at least once in a published novel.
After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". There, the couple had a son, Cullen, in 1962. When writer James Agee's childhood home was being demolished in Knoxville that year, McCarthy used the site's bricks to build fireplaces inside his Sevier County shack.
While Lee cared for the baby and tended to the chores of the house, Cormac asked her to get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing. Dismayed with the situation, she moved to Wyoming, where she filed for divorce and landed her first job teaching.
McCarthy has not publicly revealed his political opinions.[92] A resident of Santa Fe with a traditionalist disposition, he once expressed disapproval of the city and the people there: "If you don't agree with them politically, you can't just agree to disagree—they think you're crazy."[21]
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Regarding his own literary constraints when writing novels, McCarthy said he is "not a fan of some of the Latin American writers, magical realism. You know, it's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible. It has to be vaguely plausible."
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2: No wonder he's been divorced three times lmao
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I actually just finished The Road this morning. It was meh.
When a Salman Rushdie type or a Tom Robbins type goes all florid on you you can tell it's because they genuinely enjoy playing with language, which I respect even when it doesn't work (which is often enough, in the case of those two.) I doubt McCarthy would use the words 'enjoy' or 'playing' to describe any part of his process. He writes like a witch put a curse on his family three hundred years ago and the only way to lift it is to use every word in the English language at least once in a published novel.
That's some great visual imagery right there
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He must have been (and still is?) a real asshole...
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:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2: No wonder he's been divorced three times lmao