Blood Meridian is a dive, a landfill in the raw horror, both sumptuous prose, lyrical, precise elliptical. No identification possible from the player, humanism, even if it collapses into absurdity, The Road, has no place here ... The "hero", runaway child, " son of man "(excruciatingly ironic reference to Wordsworth) down the river to New Orleans to end up pacing the Texas and New Mexico to scalp hunters ... Granton their head, Judge, for that war and violence are the only absolute realities, the only worthy of giving meaning to our low passage here, and again ... told him he will never die. The action, philosophical parable is in the 1850s spoke of Melville, Bosch ... and Faulkner. Evil Ahab stalking is endorsed by Granton, better, assumed, illustrated, see theorized. The bruised bodies appear as they do when the blood is not enough, when it should serve as an example ... Faulkner for breath, rooting in a territory, soil, which is likely to survive the horrors of human behavior. To the right word. The pithy dialogue of a mystical landscape, space, blindness, that of the dark night in the desert or the whiteness of the burning sun on the rock, dust, any plant, prickly, named as it should. The subtitle of the novel "or on the evening of reddening in the West," recalls the central role of the land, this land burned southwest ocher, offering an Apocalypse decor madness. It nevertheless remains first, if only because always one, inevitably, its gray / brown and ocher red blood / black staining of the rags bounty killers ... This novel is perhaps the most astounding, almost meaning clean, Cormac McCarthy.
