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Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering-and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day. Earning McCarthy comparisons to greats like Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian is a masterwork of rare genius. Gifted narrator Richard Poe wields the author's prose like a man born to speak it.… (plus d'informations)
I loved The Road. I think it is absolutely one of the best books to hurt you with depression. And yet...and yet...there is hope. McCarthy's writing always has some touch of that and Blood Meridian does as well. This was an earlier novel of McCarthy and one not well received in 1985 which is to be expected. In the '80's you probably didn't have the nihilism of today from the mainstream thought whereas today the book wouldn't work well because of the bad words being the most offensive part of the book.
McCarthy definitely pulls from Paradise Lost and Heart of Darkness. Especially with Milton, I see why people want a backstory to why Satan did what he did. However, when I hear the story, my questions are to why God did what He did. The fallen state of man makes Satan too relatable a character. I want to know what the "alien" mind thinks and why.
McCarthy is never not going to be a talented writing. I may have found this book more middle of the road but that's mostly due to what the author attempted to do with theme and plot and not with talent and phrase. There is some great moments of the story and those exist mostly in the subtly of letting the reader draw conclusions that could be debated among superfans. Some good speeches and dialogue by The Judge and some clear references to Prometheus and Paradise Lost story elements.
The Judge will probably be on a number of lists for the greatest villains in media. He's clearly a personification of the devil/evil but I think he also portrays the flaws with McCarthy's story. The Judge, like the story, relies too much on "man is ultimately evil" and while The Boy can be read as taking part in the evil or not, this type of story never highlights the other side of the metanarrative - if there is a devil then there is a God and the devil is God's devil. This aspect is what made The Road so amazing - that hope could be found where none should exist and anything that did at the time was burned up. Unless you have The Boy take no part in any of the violence, which is hard to make that argument, the ending only works if he remained pure and then gave up.
All this to say that it doesn't offer the reader, who can read the ultraviolent and racism, can see some good storytelling here. Maybe in 1985 there weren't enough "ya, but what's the devil's side of the story" and I'm just burned out on the "villain is the person to root for" grimdark from those of less talent than McCarthy. I'll leave the Blood Meridian and take The Road out. Final Grade - B- ( )
It's possible to interpret a book so deliberately obtuse in lexicon, structure and grammar in ways that one chooses. Is it a masterpiece or gratuitously violent? Is it about man's inhumanity to man or the election of Trump? Is the judge evil incarnate or a charlatan? The ex-priest was right, the kid should have shot him while he had the chance. ( )
This latest book is his most important, for it puts in perspective the Faulknerian language and unprovoked violence running through the previous works, which were often viewed as exercises in style or studies of evil. ''Blood Meridian'' makes it clear that all along Mr. McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency.
Virtually all of McCarthy's idiosyncratic fiction (The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, Suttree) is suffused with fierce pessimism, relentlessly illustrating the feral destiny of mankind; and this new novel is no exception—though it is equally committed to a large allegorical structure, one that yanks its larger-than-life figures across a sere historical stage.
« Car vos idées sont terribles et vos cœurs faibles. Vos pitiés, vos cruautés sont absurdes, sans calme, comme irrésistibles. Enfin vous craignez le sang, de plus en plus. Vous craignez le sang et le temps. » Paul Valery
« Car il ne faut pas considérer que la vie des ténèbres est plongée dans la misère et comme perdue dans l’angoisse. Il n’y a pas d’angoisse. Car la tristesse est engloutie dans la mort, et la mort et l’agonie sont la vie des ténèbres. » Jacob Boehme
« Clark, qui a dirigé l’année dernière une expédition dans la région des Afars dans le nord de l’Éthiopie, et Tim D. White, de l’University College de Berkeley, ont ajouté qu’un crâne fossile daté de 300 000 ans découvert précédemment, dans la même région, avait fait l’objet d’un nouvel examen. Les constatations faites à cette occasion permettent de penser que ce crâne a sans doute été scalpé. » The Yuma Daily Sun June 13, 1982
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The author wishes to thank the Lyndhurst Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He also wishes to express his appreciation to Albert Erskine, his editor of twenty years.
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L’enfance au Tennessee – La fuite – La Nouvelle-Orléans – Bagarres – Blessé par balle – En route pour Galveston – Nacogdoches – Le révérend Green – Le juge Holden – Une rixe – Toadvine – L’hôtel incendié – Une retraite.
Voici l’enfant. Il est pâle et maigre, sa chemise de toile est mince et en lambeaux. Il tisonne le feu près de la souillarde. [...]
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It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chowdog’s, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sandvipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon. A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets.
The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed.
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. You believe that?
Every man in the company claims to have encountered that sootysouled rascal in some other place.
But dont draw me, said Webster. For I dont want in your book.
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent ... Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.
The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. That would be one hell of a zoo. The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be.
What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee.
We are not speaking in mysteries. You of all men are no stranger to that feeling, the emptiness and the despair. It is that which we take arms against, is it not? Is not blood the tempering agent in the mortar which bonds? The judge leaned closer. What do you think death is, man?
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Problem CK: Date de première publication : - 1985 (1e édition originale américaine) - 1988-04-14 (1e traduction et édition française, Gallimard) - 1992-10-16 (Réédition française, Le Loire, Gallimard) - 1998-10-21 (Nouvelle édition française, Editions de l'Olivier) - 2001-02-10 (Réédition française, Points, Seuil) - 2016-09-01 (Réédition française, Points, Seuil) - 2021-03-25 (Réédition française, Bibliothèque, Editions de l'Olivier)
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Fiction.
Literature.
Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering-and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day. Earning McCarthy comparisons to greats like Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian is a masterwork of rare genius. Gifted narrator Richard Poe wields the author's prose like a man born to speak it.
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McCarthy definitely pulls from Paradise Lost and Heart of Darkness. Especially with Milton, I see why people want a backstory to why Satan did what he did. However, when I hear the story, my questions are to why God did what He did. The fallen state of man makes Satan too relatable a character. I want to know what the "alien" mind thinks and why.
McCarthy is never not going to be a talented writing. I may have found this book more middle of the road but that's mostly due to what the author attempted to do with theme and plot and not with talent and phrase. There is some great moments of the story and those exist mostly in the subtly of letting the reader draw conclusions that could be debated among superfans. Some good speeches and dialogue by The Judge and some clear references to Prometheus and Paradise Lost story elements.
The Judge will probably be on a number of lists for the greatest villains in media. He's clearly a personification of the devil/evil but I think he also portrays the flaws with McCarthy's story. The Judge, like the story, relies too much on "man is ultimately evil" and while The Boy can be read as taking part in the evil or not, this type of story never highlights the other side of the metanarrative - if there is a devil then there is a God and the devil is God's devil. This aspect is what made The Road so amazing - that hope could be found where none should exist and anything that did at the time was burned up. Unless you have The Boy take no part in any of the violence, which is hard to make that argument, the ending only works if he remained pure and then gave up.
All this to say that it doesn't offer the reader, who can read the ultraviolent and racism, can see some good storytelling here. Maybe in 1985 there weren't enough "ya, but what's the devil's side of the story" and I'm just burned out on the "villain is the person to root for" grimdark from those of less talent than McCarthy. I'll leave the Blood Meridian and take The Road out. Final Grade - B- (