The Work Of Cormac McCarthy
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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 t ....
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.... his work to life beyond the realm of
our world, "McCarthy's metaphysical assumptions are existential. Human
consciousness of the past exists within each person in memories and
contacts, held in an ongoing meaning 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, ....
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