Comments on: A review of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian https://grahamclements.com/a-review-of-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-review-of-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/a-review-of-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian/#comment-1287 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:05:02 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/a-review-of-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian/#comment-1287 Hi Tom,

Your thoughts on the landscape being the principal character are interesting. McCarthy certainly spends a lot of time describing it. Don't know about it being a hero though. Perhaps a mentor, that shapes the behaviour of the gang.

Graham.

]]> By: Tom Flood https://grahamclements.com/a-review-of-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian/#comment-1288 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:30 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/a-review-of-cormac-mccarthys-blood-meridian/#comment-1288 Hi, Graham.
I read 'Blood Meridian' in the 90s when it came out. It had a salutary effect on my thinking on writing. I rate it among the five best novels I've ever read. The reason is the language (a geological language akin to the power of 'Moby Dick'), the intensity (that language somehow internalises the landscape ie. the landscape is the principal character). I would argue the book does have a hero and that hero is landscape. It is so powerfully presented that we know it outranks the pestilent humans that scuttle across it. It's a long bow, but perhaps this is one of the great environmental novels.

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