/lit/ - Literature

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>>20685980
William Faulkner was one of the modernists along with Joyce, Woolf, and Hemingway. Faulkner is the absolute best author to understand the voice and sentiments of the Old South, and much of those feelings are still relevant today as many Southerners are still the same. His style of starkness juxtaposing grand passion and despair has influenced authors for nearly a century now and one of them is Cormac McCarthy. I think on the cover of my edition of Suttree says that McCarthy carries on the Faulknerian tradition.

How would you adapt it to the big screen?

Would a movie or miniseries be a better choice?

After reading both the Iliad and Blood Meridian, I've become fascinated by violence in literature

What are some other essential reads?

This is a thread to discuss the Cormac McCarthy novel, Blood Meridian

post them

>>20099647
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. Oddly enough, even though I consider westerns my favorite genre I haven't read many besides McCarthy's stuff.

>>20035867
>the ghost of the Kid from BM constantly mocks her for wanting to fuck her brother
I can't wait to see that passage posted here for the first time.

I listened to Blood Meridian on audiobook and really liked it. I went back through my physical copy to re-read sections and highligh passages I liked, and it was almost wholly unreadable.

It works as an audiobook because when people talk, they dont use delineated sentences. But as a book I couldn't really read it.

Dont @ me

>start writing a supernatural villain based on spirit of Babylon
>anon informs me it's le demiurge and tells me to read Blood Meridian
Well I'll be damned. I'm gonna keep writing though.

Was he a sigma?

>>18975566
BM is pretty good

>>18768470
Whatever nigger

>>18717819
Is it wrong?
The entire history of mankind is basically an encyclopedia of one war to the next, one of the oldest pieces of literature from the Greeks that this board jerks off to daily is about a war, I don't see this changing anytime soon.

What the fuck was his problem?

>>18432276
Gotta be Blood Meridian

>>18407980
>>18408011
Not to jerk off McCarthy to much, as if that was possible but his actions scenes tend to be some of the most enthralling stuff I've ever read.

>>18239116
Ye

>>18138596
Stay mad, Kid

>>17769181
the judge was a force of nature and an absolute unit

From page 322:
>In that sleep and in sleeps to follow the judge did visit. Who could come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene. Whatever his antecedents he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at least darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.
The judge defies categorization and throughout the book he mocks the conceits of men. For example, he mocks their concept of law and justice by using verbal sorcery on lieutenant Couts in Tucson after Blackson had murdered Owens, the restaurant owner, in order to get him to doubt his authority to take anyone into custody over the murder. The judge mocks the idea of barter, exchange, and economy by paying an outrageously high sum for the two puppies and then immediately throwing them in the water, and he also mocks this conceit as well as men's greed by buying Toadvine's hat from him for hundreds of dollars. He mocks man's ideas of truth and fairness when he makes false accusations against Reverend Green and incites a mob against him on entirely false charges.

Here is my opinion, or at least, some of my recent thoughts. Accepting (at least in part), a somewhat gnostic interpretation (disclaimer: the only gnostic writings I have read are an english translation of the Apocryphon of John from the Nag Hammadi library website), I can see the judge as being a sort of Yaldabaoth or anti-christ figure. He is the anti-christ in that he seeks not to redeem men but to convince them to debase themselves, to sin against other people, to lie, to cheat, to murder, to rape, to destroy themselves. He amuses himself in throwing pearls before swine by giving technical lectures on geology or anthropology to largely illiterate troglodyte thugs. He mocks god by working to become "suzerain" over all creation, but I don't think he really cares that much about the details as much as the exercise of his power over other things. In a way I think the judge is mocking the demiurge himself by playing out his conceits of being suzerain over the earth, mocking the very idea of dominion by acting like drawing pictures and stuffing birds makes him a god.

The judge is such a rich and mysterious character, I could speculate about him for hours. Frankly I think the idea that the judge is just a very clever man is ridiculous and completely missing the point of the novel. I won't pretend to act like I think I know exactly what the point of the work is. I really love this novel. All my life I enjoyed reading but rarely thought much of a book after I read it, but Blood Meridian has me almost obsessed.