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Tag Archives: Cormac McCarthy
LITERATURE: Child of God More on Character
There is no doubt about it, Lester Ballard is one of the worst characters that McCarthy’s come up with so far in my readings. Worst as far as evil, that is, and maybe, just maybe the Judge is more evil, … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Child of God – Character Empathy and Writing Technique
The storekeeper looked at Ballard. Ballard, he said, how old are you? Twenty-seven, if it’s any of your business. Twenty-seven. And in twenty-seven years you’ve managed to accumulate four dollars and nineteen cents? (p. 126) This was a shocker. In … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Child of God -Evil
While McCarthy’s characters are a major force in the direction of his stories, reacting to a strongly built environment that produces more common but no less traumatic conflicts, they seem to me to be vague as individuals. What I mean … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Child of God – Ahem, Character
Oh my. McCarthy’s outdone himself. Harrogate’s love of watermelons seems positively normal. Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Child of God – Mood
Lord, this is McCarthy: I remember back a number of years, talkin about fairs, they had a old boy come through would shoot live pigeons with ye. Him with a rifle and you with a shotgun. Or anything else. He … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Child of God – Character
I’m well into Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God and learning by alternating first and third person narrator pov about the main character, Lester Ballard, who just lost his property to auction and has set up in a shack somewhere in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Child of God – Melody
Before I knew it, I was up to page 15, but this, the opening line; a run-on sentence that reads like a song: They came like a caravan of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Child of God
I can’t stay away from him any longer. There’s no reason to keep denying myself as some sort of repression of a little happiness. I’ve been down a long time, and it’s either a cream cheese and chocolate bits-filled chocolate … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCarthy
Thanks to Slushpile for the heads up on Cormac McCarthy’s latest, Country for Old Men, due out tomorrow. He includes an excerpt and link to Jeffrey Lent’s review in the Washington Post (critique MY McCarthy? Why he’s right up there … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: McCarthy & Parker
Good grief, do I miss phenomenal writing! Yes, I suppose I must admit that the classics don’t become that without good reason. I’m plodding my way through short story lit journals that shall remain nameless for now (after all, I … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Suttree in Afterglow
The morning has me still thinking about him, and as I go my morning rounds along the web, I find another mention of him, on The Great Lettuce Head–he who started me on the McCarthy’s path. And a comment on … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree’s Resolution
One point was made at the Wesleyan conference that I hadn’t considered: That the necessary change as a result of the event or series of events is not necessarily one that takes place within the protagonist, but in fact, may … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree’s Climax
Thirteen pages to go and McCarthy is whipping us up into a Godalmighty climax that should leave us exhausted. Drugs, good or bad, would be hardpressed to produce worse nightmares than those in Suttree’s head. Methinks McCarthy had a helluva … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree
Uh-oh. I am down to the last thirty pages, drawing it out as long as I can, unwilling to let go. McCarthy is disposing of his characters, one by one. You knew this is where they’d go, where their lives … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Suttree
I’m sorry, but Suttree is just one of those books you just have to share… Leonard’s just out of the workhouse where he spent some time when they found out about his father. Yep, the old man surfaced, dragging his … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology