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Pros
Cormac mccarthy's the passenger is an existential sci-fact horror story of lovecraftian proportions disguised as a genre-bending picaresque novel. Mccarthy still shines.
High art is in the dance around the questions, the endless engagements and disengagements, the evasions. One needs to step back to see the many threads that create the novel tapestry.
The story takes place in 1980 and goes back in time to when alicia was alive. Alicia western, his sister, represents a purer (i. More pure) alicia western.
Billy western, the main character, is a composite of binx bolling from the moviegoer. Bobby western is a deep sea diver who dreads it every time he descends.
Cons
Simply stated, nothing really happens in this book. The story itself is an absolute bore. If this book had been submitted for publication by an unknown author it never would have been published.
Mccarthy's writing is disjointed, irregular and senseless. Despite what i thought was openness to the new, it seems the last thing i wanted in a mccarthy novel was “something different. I am convinced mccarthy has spent too many years at the santa fe ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Mccarthy like the great modernists before him grapples artfully with the most vexing questions
In a genius creative writing move western meets his sister’s hallucinations the dwarf and finally a kinder older woman hallucin... Read More
Humans are still pondering the existential mountains and valleys of living and the sum does not add up with the parts we have at hand
In the process of trying to resolve this paradox they invented the weapon with the power to end humankind for all eternity
Competitiveness
You can’t get hold of the world
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The many colorful characters are knowable only with multiple readings the human and the imaginary
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Humans are still pondering the existential mountains and valleys of living and the sum does not add up with the parts we have at hand
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But do not get me wrong here…cormac mccarthy does not suffer the anxiety of influence that harold bloom had articulated as the fundamental condition for writers rather mccarthy seeks to destroy the scared vessel and build a new one that is hewn or molded from a reality that crushes hubris and makes us wonder if dreams and the waking hours are but clay for human folly ennui we are all passengers weary and weak from the long flight over vast waters and driven by forces we cannot fathom nor grasp with the meager tools of science or philosophy
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The only solace is a story of human consciousness adapted to the novel a literary ray of light in the vast purple curtains of the cosmos
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Listen to mary fahl of october project sing bury my lovely then you would get the sense of the bending of light
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The missing passenger in this book is the feminine
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Western’s sister is verbally dominated by her hallucinated dwarf
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She doesn’t talk back to tell him he is rude until the end of her life
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