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Cormac McCarthy

3.37 AVERAGE


My least favourite McCarthy to date

I read this long ago. Some wonderful moments. I'm aborting the reread though because it hasn't held my attention very well.
challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Desconocimiento: la irrupción en la naturaleza por el hombre en "The Orchard Keeper," de Cormac McCarthy.



¿Hay Algo que perdura en aquellos paisajes en los que muchos han intentando entrar, pero la naturaleza, Tarde o Temprano, vuelve a ser el color que recubre el espacio? La mención de "Tarde o Temprano" (FCE, 2009) no es coincidencia. En la recopilación de poemas de J. Emilio Pacheco, encontramos en «Tarde enemiga» el siguiente pasaje:

"¿Cómo atajar la sombra / si nada permanece, / si ha sido nuestra herencia la dualidad del polvo?"

Mi primer McCarthy fueron sus últimas novelas, "The Passenger" y "Stella Maris." Su prosa y lo que otros dicen de él me cautivó tanto que, así como con Pynchon, decidí embarcarme en toda su obra, empezando por órden cronológico.

En "The Orchard Keeper," su primer novela, ya encontramos los rastros que Melville y Faulkner dejaron en su cosmovisión. La presencia de algún demiurgo es notable en la forma en la que los Paisajes son descritos, majestuosos e inhaprensibles por el hombre, así como lo que sucede en Ellos. Aquí tenemos 3 protagonistas conectados por más de lo que conocen, y alguna vez harán.

Para ser su primer novela, es todo un lujo lingüístico, si acaso un poco rebuscado (sin tomar en cuenta el hecho de que destesta el uso de puntuación "estándar" como Samarago). Totalmente la recomiendo, aunque no si es su primer McCarthy. En ese caso, recomendaría empezar con "The Road."

No puedo esperar para llegar a "The Outer Dark."



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Cormac McCarthy (who is one of my favorite authors) never disappoints. This is his first novel and it is clear he was great from the start. I love the way he writes and the dialogue alone is worth the read.

Mesmerizing prose. He identifies so deeply with his subject, often a piece of the natural world. Sometimes it's a person and there he seems to stand within the person at that moment, offering no particular judgement. There is loneliness, alienation and beauty. There is an implied juxtaposition of an old almost pre-industrial culture, and now the "modern world" swirling around in an unimaginably old and unknowable universe. This particular story I related to especially because of the setting in the Appalachians around Maryville, basically my grandparent's generation (and more ancient).

Although I appreciated reading McCarthy's first book as an investigation into his early style, with all it owes to Faulkner and the Deep South, it didn't really impress me like I'd hoped. He brought the landscape, community, time period, and characters to life, but the story ultimately felt empty and lacking purpose.

This "two-star" review is relative only to McCarthy's other works, and not literature in general

Sorry McCarthy fans but this might be the worst book I've ever read, I just want to get to his later works lol.

To borrow from this totally on the the spot review of The Orchard Keeper:

https://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2011/02/07/cormac-mccarthy-the-orchard-keeper/

"So, the book is both frustrating and beautiful. It lacks the cohesiveness of McCarthy’s later works, but it also shows his strengths were already highly developed. The story itself is not satisfying, but the atmosphere it evokes is. Therefore, whether the book is worth reading depends. As a fan of McCarthy, I had to read it. I may have been disappointed in one sense, but it worked to satisfy the hunger I feel for McCarthy’s work at times."