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.
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.
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...
评分科马克•麦卡锡的确是独开一脉——末世诗学。 在开读中译《血色子午线》之前,几次捺不住诱惑,想尝试读读看原文。那是惨不忍睹的熬人!读不下去,是我底气不足吧。据说Harold Bloom也是在读第四遍之后才进入到麦氏文本之中。 作者语体、叙述、节奏、人物均给我一种格格难...
评分说起麦卡锡的魅力,从作家斯蒂芬·金,到导演雷德利·斯科特,摇滚明星布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀等等明星大碗,只要读过他的小说,无一幸免,都成为他的拥趸。 ,以爱读书爱学习著称的“好莱坞德艺双馨艺术家”腐兰兰(aka詹姆斯·弗兰科,James Franco)过去就经常亮书单,还给企鹅...
评分这书看到过介绍,哈罗德品特将其和《寂寞芳心小姐》寓为20世纪美国最伟大的几本小说之一,认为它比《我弥留之际》和《拍卖第四十九行》更为重要,更具原创性。之前看过作者的《天下骏马》《传阅》《路》三本,超级喜欢《路》,次之《天下骏马》,被很多人力捧的《穿越》感觉一...
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。
评分第一次看西部小说啊,血腥的不行。吸血鬼那边想到了大话西游的场景,电影有趣死了。rango动画的酒吧和这小说相比,实在是小巫见大巫。动不动就是血洗村庄啊,尸横遍野,还好很多都没读懂。
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。
评分“读到吐血”,从任何层面上。
评分特别好
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