Cormac McCarthy on Modern Literature
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- čas přidán 24. 09. 2023
- Cormac McCarthy was actually a fan of some modern literature! In today's video, I will discuss Cormac's thoughts on some modern classics!
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The scene on the oil rig when he can't tell if he is alone or not is sick.
The first scene underwater in the plane is crazy.
So much in that book that's transcendent and haunted.
Imagery in my mind stays there solid.
Like when he unscrewed the mirror to hide the letters behind.
The conversation with the lawyer is one of the best scripts between two people I have ever read.
People often crap on modern fiction as a way to sound more intelligent. There’s some amazing stuff out there and much of it is popular. You’re just depriving yourself of some great experiences when you do that.
Exactly. There is wild stuff being published every year.
What are some examples from the past 3 years?
Agreed. My current favourite writer working today is Ron Rash, and I like his books just as much as the old stuff I love.
@@adampearson1541pete dexter. Nobody ever talks about him.
I read WM about 10 years ago. I remember sitting after I finished and just being punch drunk. It takes a lot of endurance to make it through and you’ll be looking up a lot of references on the internet, but it’s so worth it. This book sticks with you. Even more impactful today with social media, where we are ostensibly more connected to each other, but still alone and very very lonely.
Beautiful comment!
I was acquainted with David Markson in NYC. Nice guy. Really into Samuel Beckett. His personal library was kind of famous in the neighborhood, but he would always lament that he'd tossed his banned copy of Tropic of Cancer before he came back to the States from the war.
lol
He made a good choice. That book is trash.
I love David Markson’s books. There is nothing else quite like them. I see the connection in tone and style.
I noted the pic of Stephan King. As a young Man I read The Stand while working nights at a hispital. I still remember segments of it years later. Particularly chapter three, I believe, wherein we are given speculation on how People would react if the normal support systems of everyday life failed. I wonder if Cormac read The Stand.
no idea if he read King!
Stephen King wrote a short book called, “On Writing.” Great little book on his writing technique and method. Full of short stories of his personal life and how he came to writing. Highly recommended.
Suttree was his first book I read and it drew me in. It was up there with Les Miserable ,Tale of two cities and several of Charles Dickens . One "" chapter" and Harrogate and the boys had me.
His characters come alive. I can literally see them nos.
Love the channel dude! Question for you, along with Markson, who else would you recommend reading? You say there are plenty of contemporaries pushing the limits, I'm a sucker for reading older fiction but would love to read some more modern writers.
Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones". A monumental WW2 historical novel written from an ex Nazi officer's POV. As far as 21st century goes, one of the best books one could read. The events take place in the Eastern front and therefore the novel was almost completely ignored in the U.S, while in Europe and Russia, it's justly considered a literary staple.
Did you just have a bunch of videos waiting in the pipeline or something this is like the 4th or 5th video I have seen posted today. I am not complaining tho keep the videos coming!!!!!
Haha, I am working towards 20 videos a day! That's not a joke either 😂
@WriteConscious don't burn yourself out bro. Stay healthy. Great content btw
What's burning me out is working a full-time job lol! The faster I get away from that the better
"...some Jonathan Franzen putz type figure..." 😂 I swear that dude seems to be like the most hateable of all the literati. 😂
Interesting to hear that McCarthy admired Wittgenstein's Mistress. I remember reading somewhere that he said he hadn't even read a novel in years, so maybe that was like the last book that held his interest.
I would just like to thank you for referring to Jonathen Franzen as a "Putz". I don't feel so alone anymore.
Just telling the truth!
I don't really think of The Road as postmodernism. Post apocalyptic but post-mondernist? I would almost consider Blood Meridian more post modernist. The Road has a fairly conventional plotline and characterization.
Absolutely; I think there’s an important distinction between postmodernism and just contemporary modernism
Sorry, wrong terminology. The Orchard Keeper and Blood Meridian are his post-modernist works.
*garner, not garnish
Lol, thank you. Just garnishing some tacos out here in my mind
rock -bottom ,he preferred physics
Yes!
Two to four years on a book a short piece? Faulkner wrote a couple of his best novels in 2 to 4 months.
Yeah I found that weird it feels like a book that could have been written in 6 months. Maybe he was just sitting on it for a long time
Need to get into Faulkner; got any recommendations?
@@MogMonster87Collected Stories, Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary, Absolom Absolom, The Hamlet, Go Down Moses, The Unvanquished, The Town, The Mansion, The Reivers