The Border Trilogy: Mccarthy Cormac

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Punta a sud, verso il confine col Messico. Con lui parte anche un amico, Rawlins, che crede di essere più fortunato in Messico nella ricerca di un lavoro. Ma in fondo quella che entrambi cercano è una vita alternativa: in qualche modo, è un andare contro il tempo, il progresso arriva da nord, e allora spingiamoci a sud dove si vive ancora con i cavalli, le selle, i lazo. Il loro obiettivo si riflette nel paesaggio: secco, assolato, duro, primordiale, che sembra scolpito dalla collera di dio. Although the novel is not overtly satirical or humorous, it has many of the qualities of a picaresque: a realistic portrayal of a destitute hero embarking on a series of loosely connected, arguably doomed quests. In a critical review, The Independent described the book as "an ungainly picaresque" that "never becomes more than a sequence of events." [2] Plot summary [ edit ] Ogni tanto il gruppo passava accanto a una macchia di cholla. Sulle spine delle piante c’erano trafitti numerosi uccelli trascinati dal vento, piccole creature grigie e anonime impalate nell’atto di volare o afflosciate con le piume arruffate. Alcuni erano ancora vivi e al passaggio dei cavalli si contorcevano sulle spine sollevando il capo e pigolando, ma i cavalieri non si fermarono. Quando il sole s’alzò nel cielo il paesaggio cambiò colore e si tinse del verde acceso delle acacie e dei paloverde, del verde scuro dell’erba che costeggiava la strada e del rosso fuoco dei fiori dell’ocotillo, come se la pioggia fosse stata elettrica e avesse elettrizzato il territorio.

Questo ultimo volume della Trilogia della Frontiera strappa al lettore qualcosa di ineffabile. Qualcosa gli è stato donato e qualcosa gli è stato sottratto durante il percorso. Le mani sono vuote. E dentro resta un dolore senza oggetto, ma fortissimo. Despite the careful, and sometimes surprisingly phrased imagery, I often struggled to picture the story, let alone believe the main protagonist was only sixteen. Perhaps I need to watch more vaqueros films. Nell’ avventura, colorata, arida, fredda, mangereccia, il lettore è precipitato a capofitto in ciascuno dei libri. Lo si fa sedere a cavallo fin da principio e gli si insegnano i rudimenti lungo il percorso. Alla fine, quando lo fanno smontare da cavallo, scoppia a piangere come un bambino che chieda ancora “cinque minuti”. Il ranch dove i due, John e Billy, lavorano e vivono è in territorio texano, la sera i due sconfinano in territorio messicano per andare a bere e a donne.

They sat. Rawlins smoked. John Grady crossed his hands on the pommel of his saddle and sat looking at them. After a while he raised his head. Another novel, loosely in the Western genre, and also a coming-of-age trip, that I really enjoyed, is John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing, which I reviewed HERE (he’s most famous for Stoner). When she crossed the Boulevard 16 de Septiembre she kept her arms folded tightly at her bosom and her eyes lowered in the glare of the headlights, crossing half naked in a hooting of carhorns like some tattered phantom routed out of the ordinal dark and hounded briefly through the visible world to vanish again into the history of men’s dreams.” She’s as innocent as the boy from The Road. The suffering of innocents is most heartbreaking. Both books kill me. What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.’

Il viaggio di John Grady ha forte valenza iniziatica, viaggio all’origine del mondo, e il romanzo si potrebbe ascrivere tra quelli cosiddetti di formazione. Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it. You understand what I'm sayin? Grady’s father may not have had much of a part of his raising but he knows one of the most important aspects of his life. Horses. His gift to Grady, the Hamley Formfitter saddle shows this. Throughout the novel, we learn of Grady’s relationship with horses and through this I came to think of this connection as elemental, a part of him as close as his own skin. He talks to his horses in Spanish, which because of his raising is probably his first language. Look, Jason, a writer spends an awful lot of time putting words on paper and figurin' and refigurin' how to change those words so it has an effect on the reader, someone like you.

Apocalypse and humanity

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. And that is what was to be found here. The corrido. The tale. And like all corridos it ultimately told one story only, for there is only one to tell. Ah, altra cosa: chi ha pensato che lasciare le parti in spagnolo non tradotte fosse una buona idea???? Interrompono costantemente il fluire del romanzo costringendo a un'inutile decodificazione, quando sarebbe stata sufficiente una banale nota a piè di pagina. 🤦🏼‍♀️ John Grady and Rawlins find adventure indeed, becoming ranch hands at an estate in Coahuila. Cole shows his quality and is soon promoted to trainer and horse breeder. They also find a mountain of trouble. John Grady tumbles into star-crossed love with Alejandra, the estate owner's bewitching daughter, and well, you just have the read the rest your damn self.

This novel isn't perfect. The ending, just as in No Country, slows significantly from a galloping story to a series of rambling speeches. But, I just couldn't give it less than five stars. I guess I like romance more than I thought. No Country for Old Men, published in 2005, was dismissed by the critic James Wood as “an unimportant, stripped-down thriller”. The Coen brothers movie of 2007 revealed the perfect geometry of this violent tale of pursuit and revenge. Tommy Lee Jones led the cast superbly as craggy Sheriff Bell, Javier Bardem was Chigurh, the remorseless killer with the bad haircut, and Josh Brolin was the outgunned man who found the drug money.Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian". The A.V. Club. June 15, 2009. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013 . Retrieved April 26, 2020.