Hermetic in character and quite little given to social appearances, Cormac McCarthy He led his literature along very different paths, moved by a firm desire to tell one of those stories that suddenly appear striking the conscience of the creator of any type of artistic manifestation.
Ok, this may be my impression. But how not to consider it that way when you find a literary career dotted with various themes that if anything share only a crude vision of the world through plots that always lead the characters between restlessness, violence and a kind of indolent survival instinct.
The Cormac McCarthy thing seemed exclusively a commitment to literature that does not stick to editorial impositions or trilogical invitations that although it has done on occasion, it has always been in its own way, without a plot continuity but environmental. McCarthy wrote to give himself the pleasure of outlining personalities on the edge that finally scare and impose their credibility in the face of the abyss.
From compositions that point to the black genre to forays into science fiction. This author did not care about one genre or another, his imprint was intense enough to always decipher that extreme humanistic intention.
Among the last great American writers, McCarthy acquired his most authentic role, determined to tell unforgettable stories that often travel from coast to coast this vast country in search of great stories to be told. Cormac McCharthy took the baton in life from a Mark Twain recovered to continue narrating the America of the XNUMXth and XNUMXst centuries, with all the new nuances that this implies.
Top 3 best books by Cormac McCarthy
The road
The world is a hostile, empty place, subject to the chaos of a nuclear-inspired global holocaust. On the way through what was once the United States, a father and his son wander in search of some last space free of so many dangers that lurk in the middle of that new planet delivered to the darkness of humanity itself.
The south instinctively seems like a stronghold of survival between the heat and the calmer sea. Under this dystopian approach, Cormac takes the opportunity to insert an ideology about humanity as a civilization, perhaps not so far at present in its essence from any bestial behavior.
A book that was made to the cinema for me with more pain than glory. That a film is preceded by a novel awarded with the Pulitzer does not always ensure quality.
And it is that there are books that in their absolutely literary essence are difficult to accommodate on the big screen. Because in this case the scenario is the excuse and not the foundation. Although if the film serves for the novel to go further, welcome.
All the beautiful horses
With this book begins the Frontier Trilogy, which, as I have indicated before, follows an environmental pattern that is not argumentative.
And surely this is the best book of the three that make up that compendium of toughness and survival for characters turned into great tightrope walkers on the most aggressive instincts of the human being, people who live on a physical and moral frontier and who mainly must survive them and your circumstances.
Between Texas and Mexico lives John Grady Cole. At 16 he is a kid with no roots beyond his grandfather. So after his death, he takes the reverse path of wet backs to take a bath of harshness and violence, thus awakening his feeling of abandonment and exposing him and his traveling friend to epic adventures among the sordid, to emblematic confrontations and encounters. on the wild side of the world.
No country for old men
We all remember Javier Bardem with his wig and his lost look. He is Anton Chigurh, an unscrupulous hit man who seems given to the job of the executioner by psychopathy more than by dirty business.
Although actually he is hired to sustain the heroin market between Mexico and the United States. The hard 80s are running, and Chigurh has just completed one of his assignments, without realizing that a large sum of money has been left there, abandoned at the crime scene.
Llewelyn Moss discovers the sinister death scene but decides to keep the money. How could it be otherwise, the third in dispute is a Sheriff, Ed Tom Bell. The triangle of violence is served, with almost philosophical dissertations between violence and the stress of the three-way persecution.
A novel that, as the good old McCarthy always does, brings a lively rhythm, violence, characters to the limit and a meditation ground on the human being, the fit of his instincts in society and the drifts of human reason.
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