The great American writer Cormac McCarthy, who found success late in life, died Tuesday at the age of 89 of natural causes. Columnist of Appalachian America and the dark “Wild West” McCarthy, whose novels were adapted by Hollywood (No Country for Old Men, The Road) and who won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2007, died at his home in Santa Fe, in the state of New Mexico. Dark, cruel, his work composed of 12 novels, recalls the writings of Faulkner. Le Figaro invites you to discover the most emblematic of them.
Fourth novel by the American writer, it depicts, in Tennessee, a certain Cornelius Suttree, a fallen aristocrat who, after his release from prison, became a fisherman on the banks of the Tennessee River. A beautifully written autobiographical novel, it is often compared to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and John Steinbeck’s La Rue de la Sardine.
The author’s fifth novel, it depicts a teenager in the midst of a wild horde of men perpetrating massacres throughout their journey through the landscapes of the Far West. Considered McCarthy’s masterpiece. “The best book since While I’m dying by Faulkner” for the great American critic Harold Bloom. It is also the one that is most criticized for the place given by the author to extreme violence.
After a cataclysm of unknown origin devastates the world, a father and his son who have lost everything, wander, backpacks, in the direction of the south, pushing a shopping trolley. The greatest success of the writer. This post-apocalyptic tale was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Adapted to the cinema in 2009 by John Hillcoat with Viggo Mortensen.
The story of a morbid passion in New Orleans. The hero, Bobby Western, is a 37-year-old diver and wreck collector who had his first career as a racing driver, stopped by a terrible accident. While he was in a coma, his younger sister Alicia, a schizophrenic math whiz, took his own life. The brother and sister lived an impossible love. With its sequel and its complement, Stella Maris, this diptych is the powerful and twilight work of a writer at the height of his art.
