The Work Of Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, the author of many "American styled" novels such
as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing, writes very
good stories that appeal to the senses and the soul. He doesn't have
famous writing "heroes" that give him an inspiration to write, nor give him
ideas of what to write. Because of this lack of models, McCarthy has some
characteristics of other famous American authors, but for the most part he
uses a unique style of writing that is shown in all of his novels, and ties
together The Crossing and its predecessor All the Pretty Horses using
expressive theme, obscure symbols, eerie motifs, and a unequaled prose.
When looking at McCarthy's writing as ...
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by individuals as fragments, subject
to loss as memory dims and subject to arbitrary changes without order or
meaning" (Richey 141).
These same critics compare McCarthy's writing to past writers
saying that McCarthy shares some aspects of his writing with Thomas Pynchon,
Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, and James Joyce. "A sophisticated reader on
first looking into Joyce's Ulysses might well wonder about the meaning of
what is going on. A reader on first looking into McCarthy's fiction might
well wonder, just what is going on" (Aldridge 90). Aldridge also goes on
to say that McCarthy is "fantastically gifted." Critics also state that:
Aristotle and E.M. Forster would not have approved with McCarthy's style
(Aldridge 96). The classic authors may not have approved with McCarthy's
style because of his use of extreme violence. "Sociopaths, serial killers,
necrophiliacs, and murders populate pages wherein mayhem, blood, and
generally malevolence dominate his works" (Richey ...
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(Richey 141). John and Billy both
traveled to Mexico on multiple occasions, giving the novels the label "The
Border Trilogy." However even though they had alike characteristics, their
purposes for traveling were different and they both went about achieving
their goals in different manners. "While Billy focused on the need to mete
out a personal justice, John rushed headlong into the swirling chaos which
surrounds him" (Young 99). McCarthy, being the genius that he is, also
tied the two books together with character, by ending both novels in the
same fashion. "At the end [of The Crossing] Billy, like Joh n Grady, is on
the road again, drifting from one menial job to another, ...
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