Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

ISBN 10: 0330312561 / ISBN 13: 9780330312561

Verlag: Picador UK, 1994

: Blood Meridian es una novela épica sobre la violencia y la depravación que acompañaron la expansión hacia el oeste de Estados Unidos, subvirtiendo brillantemente las convenciones de la novela occidental y la mitología del Salvaje Oeste. Basada en hechos históricos que tuvieron lugar en la frontera entre Texas y México en la década de 1850, narra las vicisitudes del Kid, un joven de catorce años de Tennessee que tropieza con un mundo de pesadilla donde se asesina a los indios y el mercado de sus cueros cabelludos está en auge. La novela explora temas de destino, libre albedrío y la naturaleza de la civilización. EAN: 9780330312561 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción|Historia Título: Blood Meridian Autor: Cormac McCarthy Editorial: Picador UK Idioma: en Páginas: 352 Formato: tapa blanda. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Happ-2024-05-27-3d9f0a0c

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Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect...He is a great writer" - "Independent". "I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as "Blood Meridian"...A nightmare odyssey" - "Evening Standard". "His masterpiece...The book reads like a conflation of the "Inferno", "The Iliad" and "Moby Dick". I can only declare that "Blood Meridian" is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement" - John Banville.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Road and Blood Meridian. Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Blood Meridian
Verlag: Picador UK
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Muy bueno