Blood Meridian

[Mark Kohut]

That's Child of God, of course, with an act of godlessness that can sink
all hope.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> For what it is worth, I'll repeat it here. Suttree was the first novel
> McCarthy started to write.....and the fourth published, as you know.
>
> The late Roger Ebert liked it most, it seems. Widest and richest were his
> reasons, as he steadily said. ( do not know if he wrote a singular piece
> about it--or Blood Meridian. )
>
> Ya know McCarthy's phrase " pandemonium of the sun" was the one Pynchon
> had JohnLarroqutte use in his show about Pynchon and the new book he was
> working on. Pretty much All think
> Pynchon collaborated with him, this was not John and his writers.
>
> The Orchard Keeper is the novel, the first published, which frames well
> most of his lifelong themes and tropes. His Faulkner influence with the
> widest angle lens--until the later novels. The other two early ones go
> deeper into the baddest shit.....ESP the unforgettable Dostoevskian scene
> in Act of God.
>
> The story of how Sonny Mehta " broke him out" to bestselling success with
> the campaign, " the greatest unread living novelist" is a good piece of
> cultural history.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 5, 2017, at 10:15 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would try Suttree, Joseph--a much better book than Blood Meridian (which
> I highly respect and would recommend but do not love).
>
> rich
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> First step to get out of hole, stop digging. First step to cooling down,
>> stop starting fires.  We want the evolution of the species to require the
>> sum total of human genius but what does that mean when so much skill has
>> been developed for burning down the house.
>>
>> There is a certain kind of gnosticism that sees this as a hell planet
>> ruled by deception.  In such a world fiends have a supernatural advantage.
>> McCarthy seems to waver between something like that and a kind of grim
>> survivalism. His is a mind I don’t care to visit ever again despite the
>> visceral prose style.
>>
>>
>>
>
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