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Oof. His bleak, poetic vision touched me in a way few authors have. The Road was a future apocalypse the way I imagine it would really be: not the camp glamour of souped up stock cars, wild haircuts and leather jackets, or a series of unrivalled shopping mall looting experiences, but a desperate, endless, pointless struggle against the dying of the light. No Country For Old Men seems even more prescient, an allegory of the chaotic disintegration of everything good that now afflicts America.
But for me, as good, as great, even, as both of those are, his meisterwerk was Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness Of The West, a hallucinatory descent into the hell of an antebellum US which prefigured and surpassed the themes of those later works. An astonishing, Nick Cave fever dream western, of violence as apotheosis and biblical power, a novel which seemed to me when I first read it in the mid 80s to capture a burning truth about America’s foundational sins.
I joked at the time that it should have been called Apocalypse Then, because only Coppola’s movie came close to capturing its savagery and strange beauty. The truth is Blood Meridian, which is a hard, hard read, (the reason why perhaps no one yet has managed to make a film of it, unlike those more biddable later works) has stayed with me my whole life, the only work to rival my love for Conrad’s original Heart Of Darkness. Kurtz, and the Judge. Two unforgettable monsters. Two inescapable reflections of… us.
The man was a genuine genius.
Saw this earlier and it kinda hit me pretty hard. He’s one of my favorite authors by a long show. Daring and bold in his approach with a very unique voice unlike anyone else. One of the best to ever do it.
Agreed. Absolutely a genius. Really really sad to hear this one
@Svetlovska a Blood Meridian film adaption is coming out this year.
Curious btw what people think have been the best movie adaptions to date of his books.
Yep, I was aware of that. A lot of people have tried before, maybe this one will get over the line.
https://collider.com/blood-meridian-movie-adaptation/
But the (rightly) utterly awful, transgressive levels of violence in the novel, the almost hallucinatory depictions of landscape, and the heightened poetic language it is related through set a very high bar for any movie to do justice to it. It would take the extremities of a Coppola at the top of his game - or maybe the director of the recent The English, or even of the very disturbing Bone Tomahawk - to approach doing it justice. I see that John Hillcoat who did The Road is the attached name. Fingers crossed he can pull it off. But I doubt it…
I think both the movies of The Road and No Country For Old Men made a decent fist of portraying the narratives he created, and I appreciated them, a lot, on their own terms as excellent movies, but neither can touch the language and style of the novels themselves. Except when they basically lift it straight from the page:
(Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t watch the clip.)
He really had such a distinctive authorial voice. And Blood Meridian is such strong meat, I’m not sure anyone would want to see it, or it would have to be viewed as some kind of torture porn, which would miss the poetry of it. If you have read the book, you know what any director is up against with it.
I honestly don’t see how the hallucinatory aspects of the novel are going to translate effectively. And I usually love John Hillcoat’s work.
Even more astonishingly, he had more than one distinctive authorial voice. The early novels are beautiful spare masterpieces. Beginning with Suttree and Blood Meridian, he delivered masterpieces made from torrents of words.
I remember reading the blood meridian...brutal.
a movie made in these days will never match the book.
It's pretty remarkable that the praise for McCarthy's work has been so universally approving. I read "Blood Meridian," and while the image dozens of mules plummeting off a mountain pass into a ravine will never leave me, I couldn't say it was an enjoyable or enlightening experience. There were many moments I wondered, Why am I reading this?
I mean, he can be a riveting writer. But the brutality of his novels seems to lead nowhere, unlike, say, the brutality of Haruki Murakami. But those who love CM, what do you love about him?
I always think my favorite McCarthy passage is the parody attributed to Eli Cash in "The Royal Tenembaums":
The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. ‘Vámonos, amigos,’ he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
Woah really? I know so many directors have been tired to an adaptation but it never came to fruition. Who’s directing this? I always thought the Coen bros would be great for it especially after No Country.
@ExAsperis99 : The thing I like most about Cormac McCarthy’s unblinking bleak, black view of the nihilistic despair at the heart of the world?
Only that he is right.
‘War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.” - Blood Meridian
‘We are fascinated by all forms of disappearance, of our disappearance. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.’ — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, "On Nihilism,"
And yet. We ride on.
Cormac McCarthy's text is very Minecraft-like. Everything is homogenized and everything is placed on the page. That's why the text can destroy the human body without hesitation, just as it destroys objects. Cormac McCarthy is an evolution of William Faulkner, and Minecraft is an evolution of Cormac McCarthy.
Block Meridian
No way… I haven’t heard this yet, this sucks. Rest in peace mr. McCarthy
he is up there on my list of favorite authors.
Suttree is brilliant and not too “brutal” if that’s what bothers you about McCarthy. And the two newest books as well: The Passenger and Stella Maris. Beyond exceptional.
I'm such a dork. I was surprised he was that advanced in age. I always thought he was middle aged.
I have read two of his books so far (the ones that were made into movies, of course). Blood Meridian is on my read list as well.
Rest in peace.