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LITERATURE: The Road – Again with the 4th Wall
(WARNING: Not only spoilers–as all my postings on lit may be, though my readings of past classics are not as threatening to the general populace as a recently published book such as this might be, but then again, who hasn’t … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Road – Meaning
There’s a change happening within the characters–as well there should be, according to fiction "law"; but who’dve thought that McCarthy would abide? Showing, via the dialogue, that as the man becomes more unsure of their fate, the boy, still frightened, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Road – Language Structure
Here then, is the antithesis of beauty in the beauty of words: The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Road – McCarthy’s Moral Question
McCarthy loves to throw out a question of ethics and leave the reader to decipher for himself beyond the character to go inside one’s own head. He weaves it throughout this book as well, never letting us forget that we … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Road – Style
Something clicked as I realized I’m at the halfway point in this book. The sparseness of words, the white space, the dialogue, the emptiness of the visual text that matches the landscape of McCarthy’s world. No Country for Old Men … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Road – Breaking Down the Fourth Wall
I’ve rooted for a character before, I’ve warned him not to open a door. Never before, however, have I waited as he passed a light over a discovery and looked him in the eye in that moment of awe of … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Road – Vision
Not merely a vision of a possible future, a warning of sorts, but a vision of man’s nature comes from this story, and it’s not the nature of man that enabled this mess, but rather what occurs later, in McCarthy’s … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Road – Setting
McCarthy has given a lot of thought to creating this world, and the greyness of it that he so repeatedly and rather singlely described it as is truly all it is. He hits us below the belt with the simple … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & WRITING: The Road – Reading Like a Writer
Just as I am getting into Francine Prose’s section on the "beautiful" sentence, what better place to be than in a McCarthy novel? Prose states: The well-made sentence transcends time and genre. A beautiful sentence is a beautiful sentence, regardless … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Road – Story
As you all know, I’m a big McCarthy fan but maybe I’m getting a bit persnickety about his writing. At his best, he is absolutely awesome. At his worst, he’s still in the top 5%. But in this novel, while … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Road – Movement
McCarthy opens this book with one new, one oft-used technique of his here: movement. A boy is sleeping, his father reaches out and touches him. This is unusual tenderness from McCarthy or his characters. Amid the greyness of a barren … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Next Up: Ahhh…Mr. McCarthy
It’s off the shelf and on the coffee table: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I deserve it. Continue reading
LITERATURE: At Swim-Two-Birds – Finale
Please do forgive the expletive on the prior lit posting, but it was quite an awesome reading experience. I realize that I’ve missed several things in this book, though I got so much out of it that it would have … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: At Swim-Two-Birds – Pre-Finale
Holy Shit! What did I just read? This book was the most amazingest I’ve ever, ever read. I’ll have to read the last three pages again–I swept through them with a fever as I crossed into yet another of O’Brien’s … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE:At Swim-Two-Birds – Some Notes
One of O’Brien’s techniques throughout the book–or at least, one assigned to at least one of his writers–has been to illustrate the show versus tell instruction. On his smallest finger Orlick screwed the cap of his Waterman fountain-pen, the one … Continue reading Continue reading
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