My four years with Cormac McCarthy | Opinion
It helped that it was familiar. I grew up in Alabama and spent my first years as a young reporter in San Antonio. The worlds McCarthy was describing felt like my worlds, but presented to me in ways I had not imagined.
It’s not the violence and cruelty that bothered me. Murder is so common in McCarthy that slaughter is a better word for it. But that’s true of just about every entertainment these days. I know smart people who acknowledge the beauty of McCarthy’s writing but who don’t like his work. They find it nihilistic. There are times when the sense of life he presents isn’t just nasty, brutish and short — it’s bestial. And his worst villains aren’t just murderers, they are like demons, the sort that make you think this could be real.
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