>In one of his few interviews, McCarthy revealed that he respected only authors who "deal with issues of life and death", citing Henry James and Marcel Proust as examples of writers who do not. "I don't understand them ... To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange", he said.Thoughts?
it's my personal favorite kind of literature. i would never say it's the only kind, though. i do agree that james and proust would have been better had they tackled the big boy topics, though. no wonder mccarthy liked melville and joyce so much.
>>25229669He should have read 'The Pupil' by Henry James.
>>25229669I think he was genuinely autistic. He cannot understand, he considers "strange," those authors who discuss ordinary social existence. Instead he revels in rocks and primitive violence conducted by monsters.
>>25229691> those authors who discuss ordinary social existenceHow many braps have you sniffed today? What fecal matter is better to jerk off with? Male or female? Dog?
>>25229726I get you're trying to call him pretentious, but fart and shit isn't immediately resonant with that kind of thing for most people. That is to say, it's strange that you went for that association specifically. You see where I'm getting at, yes? You've allowed a great part of your subconscious to leak through your speech. I'd be profoundly embarrassed...
>>25229669>write schlock about violence because your mind can only comprehend action movie -tier plots>think anyone who doesn't do this is "strange"
>>25229752>being this dishonestHenry James unironically wrote a greater quantity of outright pulp than McCarthy ever did
>>25229790False
>>25229669so much cope from someone who didn't want to admit literature is inherently faggy
>>25229796Read his horror stories
>>25229798>i'm smart and i belong here!
>>25229669If the interviewer had had any brains and any balls, he would have immediately asked CM to rate the following works of literature:— Mansfield Park by Jane Austen— As Imperceptibly As Grief by Emily Dickinson— Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll— In My Craft Or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas— A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare— She Tells Her Love While Half-Asleep by Robert Gravesnone of which involve death or indeed serious violence of any kind.(To be fair, they are all concerned very much with life, and often coloured by the existence of death, and I think he would argue that.)
>>25229820>butthurt closet faggot
>>25229815They're not horror stories, dummy.
>>25229669Hate that guy anyway. Muh blood, muh dead, muh muh muh.It's chudcore cause it lacks a spectrum, thus a brainlet can get it. It isn't bad, but it's overhyped on this site and in the anglosphere. It sounds hardcore and sells good cause Hollywood, the end.Writers that are good can deliver everything in 1 book, fun, joy, life, death, despair, tragedy and farce, without shoving it in your face.
>>25229861>muh psychological horrorHe just didn't write that one popular one you know
>>25229863Nobody asked you midwits for your opinions on books you never read
>>25229691Good, death to neurotypicals
Many of James' novels dramatize death of the soul through corruption, while many of McCarthy's characters start off dead in that sense. I like both authors.
>>25229864I know, I've read them. They're not horror stories.
>>25229669I hate that this quote is the only discussion Henry James gets on here.
>>25229876Opinion 1 among 6 billion, noted.
>>25229831>I'm VERY smart and HECKIN belong!
>>25229877What’s your favorite James? For me, it’s The Bostonians.
>>25229863>It's chudcore cause it lacks a spectrumIt literally does not. McCarthy's entire body of literature deals with the challenge of being a decent person in a world that works really hard to make you anything but. The Road practically shoves this in your face.You're an idiot and you probably read BM once and decided you understood Corncob.
making a McCarthy thread should result in an immediate rangeban
>>25229669He's right, of course
>>25229669What does it mean to deal with life and death? And how does someone like Proust not engage with those themes? One whole book of in Search of Lost Time is dedicated to grieving someone's passing, etc...
>>25230400The Bostonians as well, but I haven't read his three big late stage novels. Was planning on starting The Ambassadors in May.
>mccarthy fans still can't use the word literally correctly
>>25229820Holy insecure butthurt fag
>mccarthy hater thinks that using informal speech on a dagestani fish hatchery forum means anything at allmccarthy is the ultimate psued filter. its kind of incredible.
>>25230528sorry, is literally the ultimate psued filter.
>>25230528>>25230531You misspelled pseud twice.
>>25230496oh no no no NO
>>25229867Yeah bro normies read Proust and James. If anything McCarthy is more normiecore, he had a book on Oprah's club
>>25230533>I care deeply about the spelling of informal speech but also you cant use informal speech on a bantu glassblowing forum holy psued im embarrassed for you
>>25230496>i'm EXTRA smart and SUPER belong here!
>>25230490Ambassadors took a ways through to click for me but I liked it. I enjoyed The Golden bowl more, but I think having read the Ambassadors and Portrait of a Lady already helped me pick up on what he was going for more quickly. I haven’t read Wings of a Dove yet.
>>25230496The fact you were mad enough to dig through archives is not the look you think it is
>>25230638Cool it with the coalposting
>>25230438maybe "issues of life and death" is more of an euphemism for the dynamic between the desire and restraint to kill and the innate necessity of violence in generalalso it seems mccarthy mirrors in a way spengler's thoughts about pacifism
To kill and to die is carved into you deeper than your mind itself. All stories reflect the ultimate nature of life, directly or indirectly.
>>25230438>Proust not engage with those themeshe's got that long section about his grandmother
>>25230811t. has never killed anything except insects
>>25230820still correct regardless
>>25229687He should have read my diary, desu
>>25230650No
>>25229669I feel like that’s something a working novelist would say, an individual that had definite and strong opinions about how paragraphs ought to get constructed
