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Sto caricando le informazioni... Child of God (originale 1973; edizione 1993)di Cormac McCarthy
Informazioni sull'operaFiglio di Dio di Cormac McCarthy (1973)
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() Lester Ballard is a feral serial killer, whose rife is an extension of his arm. He kills strangers and acquaintances with no remorse or even anger - he is merely a murderer without compunction. Lester is isolated with his own fevered obsessions and leaves misery in his wake. He particularly likes female victims, and practices necrophilia. In the hands of a lesser writer, Lester's story would be sensationalized; however, McCormac writes with a simplicity that allows the readers to understand the evolving madness and cunning of a monster. Short and not so sweet tale of a serial killing necrophiliac. As usual it's McCarthy's way with words that keeps you reading, but this doesn't rise above to Blood Meridian heights of transcendent violence, nor to the pit of despair that is The Road. Lester is a pathetic character, and his story - despite the death and necrophilia - feels rather toothless and pointless. In that sense, it's perhaps more true to life. I'm really beginning to question this "genius" of Cormac McCarthy. Three books into his span of works, and they just seem to be getting worse. There was no story here. This felt like an extreme horror indie release with better-than-average writing. Lester is a character with no redeeming qualities, and the reader is simply plunged through a series of ever-increasingly terrible events. There's no real surprise at the end, and I, for one, was left trying to understand why this was even published. I'm no prude. I can see where someone like Jack Ketchum pulls inspiration from a work like this, but I can see Ketchum also deciding that, if he's going to draw from this, he's going to write something and either make it have a point, or make the point obvious that there's a reason evil like this exists in the world. Instead of just, "hey, here's a story about a really terrible human. The end." I really have no idea what the point of this novel was. If someone wants to explain it to me, I'll take it.
But the carefully cold, sour diction of this book--whose hostility toward the reader surpasses even that of the world toward Lester--does not often let us see beyond its nasty "writing" into moments we can see for themselves, rendered. And such moments, authentic though they feel, do not much help a novel so lacking in human momentum or point. Ha l'adattamentoHa come guida per lo studenteElenchi di rilievo
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Cormac McCarthy has won nearly every major literary honor, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Set in Tennessee in the 1960s, this chilling novel sees Lester Ballard become increasingly isolated from society. After taking a deceased woman as a girlfriend, he "saves her" from a fire - and his life spirals into deepening depravity. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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