This is an excellent article, and I read it with great satisfaction. Last year I read "Blood Meridian," for the first time in a book club of two. I am an educator and the other reader is a clinical psychologist. We both loved the book and were slightly revolted by it. Having read several other McCarthy books, I wasn't really surprised by…
This is an excellent article, and I read it with great satisfaction. Last year I read "Blood Meridian," for the first time in a book club of two. I am an educator and the other reader is a clinical psychologist. We both loved the book and were slightly revolted by it. Having read several other McCarthy books, I wasn't really surprised by the amount of gore and the violence, but I was sometimes overwhelmed by it to nausea. That being said, the power of his prose kept me reading intently. Whether you can tolerate the themes that McCarthy explores in "Blood Meridian," and how viscerally he explores them, you can't dismiss his incredible writing. I am so glad that you focused on that.
This is an excellent article, and I read it with great satisfaction. Last year I read "Blood Meridian," for the first time in a book club of two. I am an educator and the other reader is a clinical psychologist. We both loved the book and were slightly revolted by it. Having read several other McCarthy books, I wasn't really surprised by the amount of gore and the violence, but I was sometimes overwhelmed by it to nausea. That being said, the power of his prose kept me reading intently. Whether you can tolerate the themes that McCarthy explores in "Blood Meridian," and how viscerally he explores them, you can't dismiss his incredible writing. I am so glad that you focused on that.
It was the first time I had to use a content warning for a quote.