Prof.

Rodica Mihaila
Curs Cormac McCarthy
2012

Cormac McCarthy: The Road (Vintage International, 2006) Pulitzer Prize Winner
-- It s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful. San Francisco Chronicle
-- Simple yet mysterious, simultaneously cryptic and crystal clear. The Road offer
s nothing in the way of escape or comfort. The New York Times
-- There is an urgency to each page, and a raw emotional pull making [it] easily one
of the most harrowing books you ll ever encounter. Bookforum
-- violent, grotesque world rendered in gorgeous, melancholic, even biblical cadenc
es Rocky Mountain News
-- A dark book that glows with the intensity of [mcCarthy s] huge gift for language .i
n its lapidary transcription of the deepest despair short of total annihilation
we may ever know, this book announces the triumph of language over nothingness. C
hicago Tribune
-- The Road exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster h
as never felt more physically and spiritually real. Time
-- Its hard to think of [an apocalypse tale ] as beautifully, hauntingly construct
ed as this one. McC possesses a massive, Biblical vocabulary
The Star-Ledger
-- powerful storyteller ; the writing throughout is magnificent Chicago Sun-Times
-- Devastating McC has never seemed more at home, more eloquent, than in the sere,
postapocalyptic ash land of the Road .[A] masterpiece. Entertainment Weekly
--Mc C captures the knife edge that fugitives in a hostile world stand on Amid the
Godot-like bleakness, McC shares something vital and enduring about the boy s spir
it, his father s love and the nature of bravery itself. USA Today
-- Vivid, eloquent .The Road is the most readable of [McCarthy s] works, and consisten
tly brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civiliz
ation. The New York Times Book Review
Coperta a patra: The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become C MCCarthy s
masterpiece
Subiectul: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing move
s in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It s cold and when the snow f
alls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they
don t know what, if anything awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol
to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes
they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines
a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and the son, each the
other s world entire, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision
, The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are ca
pable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that
keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
p.286
She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the
best thing was to talk to his father She said that the breath of God was his breat
h yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
--Ultimul paragraph
al creatiei lumii inainte de aparitia omului, care o distrug
e, fara putinta de a mai reface ceva. Vezi si metafora hartii si opozitia maps-m
ystery: Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right
again. In the deep gglens where they lived all things were older than man and t
hey hummed of mystery p. 287