>>25201560A good ride.
A well written, rather grotesque book. It’s also surprisingly very fun. Some of Cormac’s best prose.
>>25201560A great book about war by a brilliant stylist. Some might say the violence gets repetitive, but then again they say the same thing about the Iliad.If you like it, check out Melville and Faulkner, AFAIK McCarthy was inspired mostly by those two and KJV.
>>25201593Both Richard Jefferies and Conrad were bigger inspirations for this book than Faulkner. So was Flaubert's Salammbô
>>25201629Stylistically or just thematically? I can definitely see the Conrad influence, but the only thing I read of Flaubert was Madame Bovary, and it's stylistically the furthest thing from McCarthy I can think of.Salammbo, St. Anthony and Bouvard et Pécuchet are all in my TBR list.
>>25201636Both. The panormic descriptions of savages in BM are direct allusions to similar descriptions in Salammbô.
>>25201639Cheers, I should bump Flaubert up my reading list.Anything you can recommend from Jefferies?
>>25201673His non-fiction and nature writing
