Ron Charles, critic (but not noir writer) at the Washington
Post, last week talked about the violence in McCarthy's new
title, THE ROAD:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801460.html
Ed Lynskey
--- Jay Gertzman <
jgertzma@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I wonder if any contemporary noir writers have
commented on
> Cormac
> McCarthy's work, either _No Country for Old Men_ or
earlier,
> more
> widely-ranging stories. Contemporary noir writers
might have
> comments on
> McCarthy's novels: the violence and where it comes
from, the
> reality
> checks and the debunking of myths and shrines, the
19th
> century
> underworld of the American city are all noirish, as
is the
> poetic,
> emotional intensity of McCarthy's descriptions. I
suppose
> only
> contemporary novels can be as explicitly, clinically
violent
> as
> McCarthy is. He's a hard-boiled Homer, according to
his
> supporters,
> with the devil at his elbow, they say, but might
spoil one's
> taste for
> Tex-Mex cuisine. No one gets out alive, that's for
sure. Lots
> of savages
> but no noble ones (sounds like US presidents from
Texas).
>
>
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