The writing of Cormac McCarthy is raw, uncompromising, filthy with violence and perversion. He never uses punctuation besides periods, not even to dilettante dialogue. His characters speak in quasi-Biblical language, and his settings are always archetypal. The south, the border, rural Mexicon and my personal favorite, "who-knows-when- Appalachia." Places of filth, squalor and sadness, of conservative communities where aberration is especially horrifying by comparison. Places and times where violence is still a language fluently spoken.
Child of God
Child of God
Child of God
The writing of Cormac McCarthy is raw, uncompromising, filthy with violence and perversion. He never uses punctuation besides periods, not even to dilettante dialogue. His characters speak in quasi-Biblical language, and his settings are always archetypal. The south, the border, rural Mexicon and my personal favorite, "who-knows-when- Appalachia." Places of filth, squalor and sadness, of conservative communities where aberration is especially horrifying by comparison. Places and times where violence is still a language fluently spoken.