Remember when they tried to cancel Cormac and nobody gave a fuck
>>24111919Yes, I remember two months ago.
>>24111919Yeah, because nobody gives a fuck about this crusty ahh boomer and his shit books.
Who cares about some old guy who will be dead in a few years? Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. There's much younger cultural icons living in disgrace you can obsess over.
>>24111919>Remember when they tried to cancel Cormac no
>>24111919While some of his themes get a bit repetitive and often seem to just indulge with no elaboration or insights I still can't think of any writer published in the last 40 years with prose as good as him. His Any recommendations?
>>24111919While some of his themes get a bit repetitive and often seem to just indulge with no elaboration or insights I still can't think of any writer published in the last 40 years with prose as good as him. Any recommendations?
>>24111963Augustus by WilliamsSecret History by Donna TarttGrotesque by Natsuo KirinoCrying of the Lot 49 by Pynchon
>>24111986I said last 40 years
>>24111972There's no one.
It doesn't really work when the guy is dead.
I do think it's interesting to compare what happened when McCarthy's shit came out to what's happening now to Gaiman. In the end I think it shows the orders of magnitude that separate them as artists. Gaiman has never made great art. Sure, maybe you can argue Sandman as a comic series, but so much of the actual artwork is what does the heavy lifting in Sandman. Probably the greatest thing Gaiman did that was entirely his own was Coraline. A children's story. A very good children's story, to be fair, but he never achieved anything greater. We wouldn't remember Tolkien if all he wrote was The Hobbit.No, instead, Gaiman's big stamp on culture was basically HIMSELF. Neil Gaiman, your kooky, creepy, slightly spooky, but ultimately very safe sort of weird writer dude. Gaiman as a personality eclipsed American Gods, Anansi Boys, everything he did as a "serious" writer, and most of his work in general. And when all that came tumbling down, he's got no great art to save himself from the mob.But McCarthy is a big boy artist. Blood Meridian alone ensures that he's one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. Suttree and Outer Dark are arguably both masterpieces, too. And since he's a big boy artist, a REAL artist, he's too important to cancel. We can't blot him out of literary discussions because he's too great. Gaiman ultimately is NOT too important to cancel, he's not good enough to be that important. So in the bin he goes.Pic related. Heidegger was literally a Nazi, but he, too, is too important to cancel. He's too big to fail, and so is McCarthy, whereas Gaiman is not.
