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Cormac McCarthy: The road (2009, Vintage International)

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Publikuota 2009 m. lapkričio 11 d., Vintage International.

ISBN:
978-0-307-47630-2
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OCLC numeris:
368020910

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4 žvaigždutės (6 atsiliepimai)

Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the roads and inhabit what few dwellings remain intact in the woods.

Through this nightmarish residue of America a haggard father and his young son attempt to flee the oncoming Appalachian winter and head towards the southern coast along carefully chosen back roads. Mummified corpses are their only benign companions, sitting in doorways and automobiles, variously impaled or displayed on pikes and tables and in cake bells, or they rise in frozen poses of horror and agony out of congealed asphalt. The boy and his father …

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apžvelgė autoriaus Cormac McCarthy knygą The Road

A tale of emotional and physical stamina

4 žvaigždutės

I think the takeaway with this tale is to never stop trying, to never give up. There’s no promise of something better, just the very human decision to will yourself forward. That if a better place is indeed out there, it can only be reached through effort, one step at a time.

apžvelgė autoriaus Cormac McCarthy knygą La strada

Review of 'La strada' on 'Goodreads'

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Sicuramente è un limite mio, ma la vedo più che altro come una pura faccenda di sensibilità e gusto:

riconosco l'importanza assoluta del romanzo (e ne apprezzo molti dei derivati - Last of Us, per citarne uno dei tanti), comprendo l'efficacia della resa del viaggio e mi è chiaro come svariati elementi possano affascinare molti lettori. Però, per il mio gusto, sono state 218 pagine estremamente faticose e frustranti, specie per una questione di forma.

La cifra dell'essenzialità di McCarthy è potente e lo capisco, ma dopo l'ennesimo "Ok? Ok." a mescoppiava la testa: datemi pure il più prolisso dei romanzi russi con millemila nomi, dialoghi e soprannomi, annoiatemi pure con descrizioni ampollose di roba superfula ma davvero, credo che le preferirò sempre a questa mostruosa asciuttezza. Confesso di aver sperato in più di un occasione che padre e figlio venissero finalmente giustiziati col lapidario colpo di grazia che si …

La Carretera: una obra fundamental.

5 žvaigždutės

He descubierto a Cormac McCarthy. Acabo de leer su obra cumbre, La Carretera, y vaya si me ha calado. Por su estilo, directo, poético, duro y bello, que me gusta mucho y que me resulta afín y ameno. Pero también por su temática, que me parece fundamental. ¿De qué trata? Para mí trata del sentido de la vida para nuestra generación, época de Cultura del Shock y cúlmen de la Sociedad del Espectáculo. Cualquiera que tenga mis casi cincuenta, más si está criando a un hijo, se habrá sentido de una forma íntima, difícil de explicar, una o muchas veces, en esa carretera que recorren los protagonistas del libro, en la que uno busca un futuro para él y para los suyos, un rayo de sol en un mundo en apariencia gris, decadente e inseguro, que amenaza en convertirse en ceniza de una manera más o menos literal, según el …

A deeply human love story

4 žvaigždutės

This book is powerful. Not a lot happens but I couldn't set it down.I don't understand the man's intentions on the surface. But, on some level I want to understand their actions. I was drawn to the characters and their relationship to each other. The love the man has is healthy in a dying world. The two face the world in stoic resistance. I will need to unpack this book over the next few days. This is a love story on a human level. I recommend reading it.

Temos

  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
  • Voyages and travels -- Fiction
  • Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
  • Survival skills -- Fiction