Blood Meridian

出版者:Vintage

作者:[美] 科马克·麦卡锡

页数:368

出版时间:1992-05-05

价格:USD 14.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780679728757

具体描述

An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts 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 the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

作者简介

Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island), is an American novelist who has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres.

Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner and sometimes to Herman Melville.

读后感

丰富的隐喻、借指和意象，催生大量解读与诠释文献，从诸学科的角度将小说的含义挖了个底朝天。诠释自然有助于理解每个意指的独立含义，让小说呈现出丰富的口味；但以一个外行人的角度来看，作者的笔法与其说是鼓励解析的，毋宁说是“反诠释”的，亦即，尽管作者精心设置了各种...  

估计大部分人都会同意这个说法，阅读这本小说令人不适。为什么呢？一个朋友半开玩笑地总结“三秒钟理解《血色子午线》：他们继续骑行，血色，残阳，遇到印第安打打打，剥头皮”。通篇极为直接和频繁的暴力描写，包括了屠杀，烧焦的婴儿，无缘由的杀戮。不难理解我们为何不适，...  

这书看到过介绍，哈罗德品特将其和《寂寞芳心小姐》寓为20世纪美国最伟大的几本小说之一，认为它比《我弥留之际》和《拍卖第四十九行》更为重要，更具原创性。之前看过作者的《天下骏马》《传阅》《路》三本，超级喜欢《路》，次之《天下骏马》，被很多人力捧的《穿越》感觉一...  

科马克•麦卡锡的确是独开一脉——末世诗学。 在开读中译《血色子午线》之前，几次捺不住诱惑，想尝试读读看原文。那是惨不忍睹的熬人！读不下去，是我底气不足吧。据说Harold Bloom也是在读第四遍之后才进入到麦氏文本之中。 作者语体、叙述、节奏、人物均给我一种格格难...  

用户评价

特别好

一场旷日持久的阅读。McCarthy怎么可以用寥寥数笔就把这乱世中人性、理性、神性的毁灭描写得淋漓尽致，其实就算他抛弃文字的形式感也对整体的震撼性毫无影响。

'Tis been years since the last time I'd identified with anyone in a book. The judge it is. Da müssen wir tanzen.

建议和同一作者的“No Country for Old Men”一起看。

杰作，杰作，杰作