| | | Great news! He takes his time in researching stuff. An amazing perfectionist. He’s fascinated by science so these novels should be very interesting.
I’ve often wondered what my other favorite author, Nabokov (another perfectionist), would think. My two favorite novels are Blood Meridian and Lolita.
One day, the Nobelistas will wake up to McCarthy, though I suspect that his penchant for describing unspeakable violence will count against him. I sometimes wonder whether Lolita and Blood would get published in these gray, boring, ultra-sensitive days, in which the subject matter means a lot more than artistic creation.
I’m familiar with much of the setting in the Border Trilogy and a lot of Blood Meridian’s so could see the care he takes in getting things right. For example, his description a church in Blood Meridian I was familiar with was dead-on, down to the niches for the Twelve Apostles at the entrance. It was obvious that he’d been there and could probably tell the reader which niche belonged to a particular Apostle.
In one of the Trilogy novels, I forget which, he describes an ancient wrecked German-made airplane of the type my grandfather told me he flew back in the day when he lived in Mexico. McCarthy knew the brand, Focke-Wulf A 17, I believe. No writer I know would bother researching such an arcane point. |
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