image from the film "No Country for Old Men."
below: 1. cover the last Italian edition of Wild Horses 2. a page of Blood Meridian "stained with blood" 3. film poster of the Cohen brothers, "No Country for Old Men" 4. an image from the film "The Road" 5. Picture of Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy. The name has become a legend in the literary landscape International contemporary art. It is also entered in its own right among the big names in American literature.
Cormac is a timid writer, holed up at his ranch in Texas and unrelated to the literary salons: in his career he has granted very few interviews to television and newspapers. His style is very original ... essential, dry, excessively descriptive, almost "objective" in the representation of the scenes, never based on introspection of the characters with moments of great artistic expression, as in the description, full of metaphors, nature rough and wild West. A distinctive feature of his writing it is found in the dialogue between characters, with phrases that seem judgments (but interspersed in parts of some of his novels by long monologues "philosophical", as in the border Trilogy) and without quotation marks. Although the writer has been releasing since the '70s, the old cowboy literature has earned its reputation in recent times, and this especially in Italy after the publication of the saga of the frontier Trilogy, consisting of Horses , The Crossing and Cities of the Plain . After the trilogy will be published in Italy (all from the publisher Einaudi), even the works of the 70s and 80s decades. The first phase of his literary output includes western dark and extremely violent, with shades of noir, almost horrorifiche (although the themes of human wickedness and violence are still at the center of reflection of its writer). An example is the masterpiece "Blood Meridian , reviewed by critics in recent times, based on the reconstruction of the bloody deeds of the Glanton gang, hunting for Indian scalps along the blazing trails of the south-west, between the U.S. and Mexico, disturbing picture emerges of where the "court", a man of culture and science strategist of violence and dark, shiny symbol of intention of annihilating power.
very successful in the Son of God is storytelling is one of the many marginalized in the deep south, her loneliness and the gradual moral degradation that lead him to become a ruthless killer, in a crescendo of violence and death. A member of this group of novels The darkness outside, story of incest and the search for a lost child, while in the background wear a band of mysterious crimes. The debut novel was rather The Orchard Keeper, the least successful in my opinion (because difficult to move, almost tough), set in a community Tennessee mingling the fates of three men linked by a mysterious crime, in which history where you can find themes and narrative styles dear to Faulkner, a writer who has often been approached McCarthy. McCarty's masterpiece is Suttree , full-bodied novel, considered by critics to the work summa and more complex in terms of style, the Texan writer. An absolute masterpiece is the best-selling No Country for Old Men , 2005, repeated faithfully on the screen about three years ago by the Coen brothers. It 's a thriller-western set in our time, the story of a chase "three" that dominate the left is the figure of Chicurg a killer paranoid striking look with coldness and an engineer (mythical scenes in which decide heads or tails with a coin, the fate that awaits the poor unfortunates who crossed his path). The plot revolves around the contention of a suitcase of dollars the result of the dirty war that has bloodied the border drug traffickers. Here, too, emerge over the character of the old sheriff that no longer includes the senseless violence that upsets his country (hence the title "No Country for Old Men"), the figure of a cowboy who fights for himself and his dignity as in the novels that have some 'given to the glory ... or those of McCarthy's Border Trilogy .
The trilogy focuses on the border, The Crossing, a place both real and metaphysical, which also becomes the research area of \u200b\u200bfreedom, of themselves. An area of \u200b\u200binitiation that will decide forever, for better or for worse, the fate of their existence. Mexico is the destination that will unveil the eyes of young cowboys Billy John and a mysterious universe, without violence and at the same time love: Mexico is the host of the peons and beautiful girls, but also the supremacy of its customs and hostility its inexorable laws, which collide with the delusions of their own existential quest. And this which remains the cowboys is the very act of research, exemplified by the wide open spaces of the border, the vagabond life along the tracks of the south-west by shootings, car chases and fights to defend themselves and what he cares more .. . In these books the dark tones and almost mournful early novels are dissolved while embodying a narrative adventure, drawn from the epic, with pages of great lyrical narrative, which is to dominate the wild expanse of the West, the story of cowboys , horses, and wolves ... And we got to the meaning of nature work of McCarthy. Nature, in the sense of wilderness , is the true protagonist, perhaps, of his novels. A nature nor romantic, nor hostile simply indifferent to the destiny of mankind, and which holds, as seems to want to suggest the enigmatic writer, the secret of human existence while all other beings, trees and animals, the stone itself . A kind of chaos and conflict, which in Serbian if the mechanisms of primordial violence, that man becomes "evil" senseless oppression. And maybe that's the secret of Evil, as the critics say, the obsession of McCarthy (theme refers to Moby Dick Herman Melville, one of the greatest sources of literary inspiration of this writer). An obsession that can be found in his last race (winning in 2007 with the Pulitzer Prize), The road , the novel darker, violent and visionary of McCarthy, which was made into a great film by John Hillcoat that bigotry made in Italy found no be worthy to come out in Italian cinemas ("too pessimistic" too bitter "they told us our censors, who are used to cram the halls of Italian meatballs sentimental or vulgar Italian comedies).
In a world literally "burnt", no hope, path of bloody raids by bands of survivors, destroyed by an apocalypse of which the author does not explain the origin nor the cause (could be a natural catastofe ...), a father and a child traveling along the road to the south, in search of a possible salvation. What remains, even in abject devastation, is the pride of being "the most good for men." Although McCarthy never expresses opinions, her novels are in fact contain a strong "moral" and often its cowboys and generally the protagonists of his novels, not to sell anything, at the cost of their skin, which also coincides with the dignity the statement of "values" truly human ...
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