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28 de abr. de 1985 · April 28, 1985. "BLOOD MERIDIAN'' comes at the reader like a slap in the face, an affront that asks us to endure a vision of the Old West full of charred human skulls, blood-soaked scalps, a tree ...
Die Abendröte im Westen (Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West) ist ein 1996 erstmals auf Deutsch erschienener Roman von Cormac McCarthy, der zur Zeit der Indianerkriege spielt. Die englischsprachige Erst- und Originalausgabe erschien 1985 bei Random House New York.Das Buch handelt von einer Gruppe von Verbrechern, die im amerikanisch-mexikanischen Grenzgebiet wahllos Indianer ...
2 de ene. de 2001 · But “Blood Meridian” stretches each one of these plot devices to the breaking point. Critics have universally praised it as one of the best American novels of the past 25 years and heavyweights like Harold Bloom have said it’s the most significant encapsulation of all of human frailty and triumph since ‘Moby Dick’.
Blood Meridian Summary. The kid is born in Tennessee in 1833, but by the age of fourteen he already has “a taste for mindless violence” and runs away from home. By 1849, he rides into the town of Nacogdoches. There, the kid encounters a giant charismatic man named Judge Holden who incites a crowd to violence against a preacher.
About Blood Meridian. The “masterpiece” (Michael Herr) of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, The Passenger, and Stella Maris “Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.”—Harold ...
Blood Meridian has these 18th-century-style subtitles for its chapters which summarize what is about to happen, and to me these summaries indicate the utter inevitability of the world that McCarthy is describing. By the time you read the chapter itself, it’s effectively already happened, it’s predestined.
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. In this, his most critically acclaimed work, McCarthy reworks the cowboy western and historical fiction genres, elevating them, with his style, to the status of high literature-a hallmark move of the "postmodern" American writing of the 1980s.
