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madelinepuckett 's review for:
Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy
I would characterize this novel as a "mind-fuck".
Cormac McCarthy's narrative is set in the year 1972, in a mental health facility in rural Wisconsin. The entirety of the novel is the dialogue of a patient, Alicia, being interviewed by her psychiatrist over several sessions.
McCarthy is a truly gifted writer. To capture the breadth of what he does in this very limited format (no setting, description, nothing - only dialogue) is a feat.
I wanted to read it over again, because the interviews reveal Alicia's views on mathematics, physics, the nature of reality, the question of God (or what lays beyond our perceived reality), the nature of madness, the darkness of humanity, longing, etc.
It's a lot. So dense I would often have to put the book down and return to keep reading.
But I'm obsessed with questions surrounding the nature of reality, so I loved it.
Cormac McCarthy's narrative is set in the year 1972, in a mental health facility in rural Wisconsin. The entirety of the novel is the dialogue of a patient, Alicia, being interviewed by her psychiatrist over several sessions.
McCarthy is a truly gifted writer. To capture the breadth of what he does in this very limited format (no setting, description, nothing - only dialogue) is a feat.
I wanted to read it over again, because the interviews reveal Alicia's views on mathematics, physics, the nature of reality, the question of God (or what lays beyond our perceived reality), the nature of madness, the darkness of humanity, longing, etc.
It's a lot. So dense I would often have to put the book down and return to keep reading.
But I'm obsessed with questions surrounding the nature of reality, so I loved it.