An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island), is an American novelist who has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres.
Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner and sometimes to Herman Melville.
WHY <B.M> IS A HARD READ FOR MANY READERS,INCLUDING LITERARY CRITICS LIKE HAROLD BLOOM? BECAUSE 1 MODERN CULTURE BREEDS NO UNDERSTANDING FOR HISTORICAL TRUTHS,AMONG WHICH BLOOD AND TIME ARE TURNED INTO SOMETHING TO BE FEARED. 2 THE LANGUAGE IS DIFFICULT...
评分萨图努斯或黑暗中的血红史诗 这是一部史诗。作者科马克•麦卡锡大半生都颇为窘困,有人在他几乎没钱吃饭的时候许以重金,请他去大学演讲一番,谈谈自己的作品,他断然拒绝,声称所有他能讲出来的,都在书页上了。接下来的一周,他和妻子只能继续吃豆子。小小轶事反映的却是...
评分現代英美文學殿堂級作品中,把《血色子午線》的兇殘暴力減半後,它還是最為兇殘暴力的一本兒。再把道德評判翻倍,依然是它最讓人感覺不到道德感。 看《血色子午線》幾十頁之後再看一集《冰風暴》或《漢尼拔》,會感覺跟看《唐頓莊園》差不多。 故事發生在十九世紀四五十年代的...
评分WHY <B.M> IS A HARD READ FOR MANY READERS,INCLUDING LITERARY CRITICS LIKE HAROLD BLOOM? BECAUSE 1 MODERN CULTURE BREEDS NO UNDERSTANDING FOR HISTORICAL TRUTHS,AMONG WHICH BLOOD AND TIME ARE TURNED INTO SOMETHING TO BE FEARED. 2 THE LANGUAGE IS DIFFICULT...
评分萨图努斯或黑暗中的血红史诗 这是一部史诗。作者科马克•麦卡锡大半生都颇为窘困,有人在他几乎没钱吃饭的时候许以重金,请他去大学演讲一番,谈谈自己的作品,他断然拒绝,声称所有他能讲出来的,都在书页上了。接下来的一周,他和妻子只能继续吃豆子。小小轶事反映的却是...
一场旷日持久的阅读。McCarthy怎么可以用寥寥数笔就把这乱世中人性、理性、神性的毁灭描写得淋漓尽致,其实就算他抛弃文字的形式感也对整体的震撼性毫无影响。
评分建议和同一作者的“No Country for Old Men”一起看。
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评分在惊叹这部绝世佳作的伟大同时,不得不感慨小说的阅读难度。难,真的难,难得让你肃然起敬。这不是我第一次读Cormac McCarthy 的作品,但是在文字上The Road 比起Blood Meridian 完全不在一个层面。小说只有337页,但那是怎么样的337页只有那些坚持到底的读者才能够体会。这是一本需要你全情投入的书,看惯了通俗小说的读者需要花很长时间才能适应Mccarthy 的写作风格,你希望自己是拉丁语专业的,地理专业的,历史专业的,甚至是植物学专业的。可以套用这么一句话,我读过两种类型的书,一种是Blood Meridian,剩下的是另一种。
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