Cormac McCarthy (* 20. červenec 1933, rozený Charles McCarthy) je americký spisovatel a scenárista, jehož díla se řadí k westernu, jižanské gotice či postapokalyptickému žánru.Literární kritik Harold Bloom ho zařadil mezi čtyři nejvýznamnější americké romanopisce současnosti (ostatními podle něj jsou Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo a Philip Roth). I-a fost acordat Premiul Pulitzer și Premiul Memorial James Tait Black pentru ficțiune pentru The Road (2006). It became a New York Times bestseller, selling 190,000 hardcover copies within the six months. ISBN 978-1570038396 Frye, Steven, ed (2013). No Country for Old Men was adapted into a 2007 film, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. [51] Directed by Ridley Scott, production finished in 2012. McCarthy turned to Alfred A. Knopf, where he fell under the editorial advisement of Gary Fisketjon. McCarthy in 1973 (Child of God dust jacket) Born: Charles McCarthy Jr. July 20, 1933 (age 87) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. He has written ten novels, two plays, two screenplays, and three short-stories, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 20, 1933, one of six children of Gladys Christina (née McGrail) and Charles Joseph McCarthy. He also spoke about the experience of fathering a child at an advanced age, and how his son was the inspiration for The Road. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Yeats. Southwestern Writers Collection at the Witliff Collection, Texas State University- Cormac McCarthy Papers; Science Friday - Connecting Science and Art - A conversation between McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Lawrence Krauss on Science Friday, April 8, 2011. [55] McCarthy is unique, as nearly all other members of the SFI have a scientific background. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres.. McCarthy's fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985), was on Time magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language books published since 1923. McCarthy currently works with the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a multidisciplinary research center. He wrote two pages covering the idea; four years later in Ireland he would expand the idea into his tenth novel, The Road. [25], In 1979, McCarthy published the semi-autobiographical Suttree, which he had written over a period of 20 years. "[79] His decision not to work sometimes subjected him and his family to poverty early in his career. William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, List of awards received by Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West, "Cormac McCarthy Crosses the Great Divide", Jim "J-Bone" Long, 1930-2012: One Visit With a Not-Quite Fictional Character, "Cormac McCarthy: America's great poetic visionary", "The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: McCarthy, Cormac | Books |", "Still Another Disciple of William Faulkner", "New Cormac McCarthy Book, 'The Passenger,' Unveiled", "Novelist reimagines Graniteville murder", https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-suttree.htm, "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? [6] The family first lived on Noelton Drive in the upscale Sequoyah Hills subdivision, but by 1941 had settled in a house on Martin Mill Pike in South Knoxville (this latter house burned in 2009). McCarthy műveit gyakran hasonlítják William Faulkneréhez. Et puisque la mort est notre sort commun il n'y a pas moyen d'apaiser la crainte qu'elle inspire si ce n'est d'aimer cet homme qui est là à notre place. "[8] While living in the barn, he wrote his next book, Child of God (1973), based on actual events. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers. "[46][47] McCarthy later adapted it into a screenplay for a 2011 HBO film. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men received mixed reviews. [32] It was also included on Time magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language books published since 1923. [note 3][58] He does not use quotation marks for dialogue and believes there is no reason to "blot the page up with weird little marks". [11], In the summer of 1965, using a Traveling Fellowship award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, McCarthy shipped out aboard the liner Sylvania hoping to visit Ireland. "[2] He told Oprah Winfrey that he prefers "simple declarative sentences" and that he uses capital letters, periods, an occasional comma, a colon for setting off a list, but never semicolons. At the SFI, he published the essay "The Kekulé Problem" (2017), which explores the human subconscious and the origin of language. He is well known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by its lack of punctuation and attribution. Cormac is the Gaelic equivalent of Charles. He theorizes about the nature of the unconscious mind and its separation from human language. ", "God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road", "Cormac McCarthy: An American Philosophy | the Artifice", Mojado Reverso; or, A Reverse Wetback: On John Grady Cole's Mexican Ancestry in, "A Translation of the Spanish Passages in, "No Country for Old Typewriters: A Well-Used One Heads to Auction", "Cormac McCarthy Explains Why He Worked Hard at Not Working: How 9-to-5 Jobs Limit Your Creative Potential", "News — Exhibition on McCarthy's Process", "Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Brings $254,500 at Auction", "The New York Times: Book Review Search Article", "Cormac McCarthy isn't dead. In the essay entitled "The Kekulé Problem" (2017), McCarthy analyzes a dream of August Kekulé's as a model of the unconscious mind and the origins of language. Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. [30][31] Some have even suggested that it is the Great American novel. Richard B. Woodward has described his writing as "reminiscent of early Hemingway. The interview took place in the library of the Santa Fe Institute. [8] While traveling the country, he always carried a 100-watt bulb in his bag so he could read at night, no matter where he was sleeping. "[89] He has cited Moby-Dick (1851) as his favorite novel. It sold for $254,500, with proceeds donated to the Santa Fe Institute. [14], Random House published McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965. [17] Upon its release, critics noted its similarity to the work of Faulkner and praised his striking use of imagery. Cormac McCarthy (d. 20 Temmuz 1933) The Road (Yol) adlı romanıyla 2007 Pulitzer Ödülü'nü roman dalında kazanan Amerikalı yazar.. Edebiyat eleştirmeni Harold Bloom tarafından, aralarında Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo ve Philip Roth'un da olduğu, neslinin en iyi dört Amerikan romancısından biri olarak tanımlanmıştır. [14] When writer James Agee's childhood home was being demolished in Knoxville that year, McCarthy took bricks from the site and with them built one or more fireplaces inside his Sevier County shack. Of all of his interests, McCarthy has claimed, "Writing is way, way down at the bottom of the list. Il travaille occasionnellement comme scénariste pour le cinéma et la télévision. [35] [13], After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". In "Mojado Reverso; or, a Reverse Wetback: On John Grady Cole's Mexican Ancestry in All the Pretty Horses," Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera observes: "John Grady Cole is a native speaker of Spanish. [38] Consequently, the novel has little description of the setting and is composed heavily of dialogue. At this time, McCarthy left his wife. [60] His attitude to punctuation dates to some editing work he did for a professor of English while he was enrolled at the University of Tennessee, when he stripped out much of the punctuation in the book being edited, which pleased the professor. [22], In 1974, Richard Pearce of PBS contacted Cormac McCarthy and asked him to write the screenplay for an episode of Visions, a television drama series. He's too tough to die. "[8] Among his childhood friends was Jim Long (1930–2012), who would later be depicted as J-Bone in Suttree. "[78] His Olivetti was auctioned in December 2009 at Christie's, with the auction house estimating it would fetch between $15,000 and $20,000. He maintained it by simply "blowing out the dust with a service station hose." Afterward he returned to the United States with his wife, where Outer Dark was published to generally favorable reviews. McCarthy wrote all of his fiction and correspondence with a single. As Murray Gell-Mann explained, "There isn't any place like the Santa Fe Institute, and there isn't any writer like Cormac, so the two fit quite well together. [36][37], McCarthy's next book, No Country for Old Men (2005), was originally conceived as a screenplay before being turned into a novel. [94] The Southwestern Writers Collection/Wittliff Collections also holds The Wolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy, which consists of letters between McCarthy and bibliographer J. Howard Woolmer,[95] and four other related collections.[95]. É vencedor do National Book Award, do National Book … [11][41] Released in 2006, it won international acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Méridien de sang (titre original : Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West) est un roman western historique de l'écrivain américain Cormac McCarthy publié en 1985.C'est le cinquième roman de l'auteur. [50], In 2012, McCarthy sold his original screenplay The Counselor to Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, and Steve Schwartz, who had previously produced the film adaptation of McCarthy's novel The Road. Cormac McCarthy is fluent in Spanish and lived in Ibiza, Spain, in the 1960s and later settled in El Paso, Texas, where he lived for nearly 20 years. "[17] In the 1980s, McCarthy and Edward Abbey considered covertly releasing wolves into southern Arizona to restore the decimated population. Also in 1966, he received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, which he used to travel around Southern Europe before landing in Ibiza, where he wrote his second novel, Outer Dark (1968). McCarthy answered eagerly, as he later said "I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was… name anything, no matter how esoteric. [47][48], Oprah Winfrey selected McCarthy's The Road as the April 2007 entry in her Book Club. You know, it's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible. [65] Although this is disputed by some, who attest that Blood Meridian is actually a gnostic tragedy. He was labelled as the "best unknown novelist in America. They have argued that Judge Holden is representative of an archon. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous. His debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965. [33] At the time, he was living in a stone cottage behind an El Paso shopping center, which he described as "barely habitable. While stationed in Alaska, McCarthy voraciously read books, which he claimed was the first time he had done so. He has written ten novels, two plays, two screenplays, and three short-stories, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. [9], McCarthy attended St. Mary's Parochial School and Knoxville Catholic High School,[10] and was an altar boy at Knoxville's Church of the Immaculate Conception. [59] Erik Hage notes that McCarthy's dialogue also often lacks attribution, but that "Somehow...the reader remains oriented as to who is speaking". In 1985, he published Blood Meridian, which received a lukewarm response. [88], In one of his few interviews, McCarthy revealed that he only respects authors who "deal with issues of life and death," citing Henry James and Marcel Proust as examples of writers who do not rate with him. McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, although he was raised primarily in Tennessee. In the midst of this trilogy came, The Stonemason (first performed in 1995), his second dramatic work. The McCarthy papers consists of 98 boxes (46 linear feet). It was based on his experiences in Knoxville on the Tennessee River. [6] It was followed by The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998), completing the Border Trilogy. "[11], In 1951, he began attending the University of Tennessee but dropped out in 1953 to join the Air Force. McCarthy wurde unter anderem mit dem Pulitzer-Preis und dem National Book Award ausgezeichnet. Cormac McCarthy, né Charles McCarthy le 20 juillet 1933 à Providence dans le Rhode Island, est un auteur américain. [9] As a child, McCarthy saw no value in school, preferring to pursue his own interests. [20], While living in the French Quarter in New Orleans, McCarthy was expelled from a $40-a-month room for failing to pay his rent. [72] As a result, Spanish has appeared in many of his works. Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. McCarthy goes on to postulate that language is purely a human cultural creation, and not a biologically determined phenomenon.[56]. "I don't understand them ... To me, that's not literature. [81] He continually edits his own writing, sometimes revising a book over the course of years or decades before deeming it fit for publication. Jerome Charyn likened it to a doomed "Huckleberry Finn. "[22], After twenty years of working with McCarthy, Albert Erskine retired from Random House. [29] In a 2006 poll of authors and publishers conducted by The New York Times Magazine to list the greatest American novels of the previous quarter-century, Blood Meridian placed third, behind only Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) and Don DeLillo's Underworld (1997).