Cormac McCarthy emerged as one of his generation's preeminent American novelists, frequently likened to William Faulkner. His works, spanning Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres, are defined by a stark realism and profound existential themes. McCarthy's prose is celebrated for its distinctive cadence, economical style, and deep explorations of violence, guilt, and human endurance against overwhelming odds. His literary legacy lies in its unflinching portrayal of the darker aspects of human nature and worlds on the brink of ruin.
L’apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres et de cadavres. Parmi les survivants, un et fils errent père son sur une route, poussant un caddie rempli d’objets hétéroclites. Dans la pluie, la neige et le froid, ils avancent vers les côtes du Sud, la peur au ventre : des hordes de sauvages cannibales terrorisent ce qui reste de l’humanité. Survivront-ils à leur voyage ?
In einer post-apokalyptischen Welt kämpfen ein todkranker Vater und sein kleiner Sohn ums Überleben, während sie durch verwüstete Landschaften und Aschewolken nach Süden ziehen, um dem Winter zu entkommen. Mit nur einem Einkaufswagen voller Habseligkeiten, einem Revolver mit zwei Patronen und ihren Kleidern sind sie auf sich allein gestellt. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich als hypnotisierende Erzählung über eine hoffnungslose Reise und bietet eine düstere Parabel auf das Leben und die menschliche Beziehung in extremen Zeiten.
This graphic novel adaptation brings Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning postapocalyptic tale to life through the artistry of acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet. With McCarthy's approval, the adaptation captures the haunting journey of a father and son navigating a desolate world, emphasizing themes of survival, love, and the human spirit amid despair. The visual storytelling enhances the emotional depth of the original narrative, making it accessible to both new readers and fans of the classic novel.
A post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The landscape is destroyed. Nothing moves save the ash on the wind. Cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family may yet find tenderness. 'The Road made me cry for days' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven '[T]he most important environmental book ever written' - George Monbiot, author of Feral and Regenesis With an introduction from John Banville, author of The Sea. Adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
The Passenger follows the journey of Bobby Western, a salvage diver haunted by loss and afraid of the depths, pursued by a conspiracy that exceeds his understanding. Stella Maris focuses on Alicia Western, a young woman committed to a psychiatric facility.
A young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border, in the second volume of the late Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood Meridian…or…The Road.” —The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.
980, PASS CHRISTIAN, It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.
The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.Two years ago, Robert McEvoy was involved in an accident that led to the amputation of his leg. Consumed by bitterness and anger, he quit his job at the mill and fled. Now, news of his mother's terminal illness brings Robert home. What he finds on his return stokes the slow burning rage he carries within him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys and the Greggs.This taut, riveting drama was Cormac McCarthy's first written screenplay. Directed by Richard Pearce, it was produced as a two-hour film in 1976 and received two Emmy Award nominations. This is the first UK publication of the film script in book form.
Кормак Маккарти — современный американский классик главного калибра, лауреат Макартуровской стипендии «За гениальность», мастер сложных переживаний и нестандартного синтаксиса, хорошо известный нашему читателю романами «Старикам тут не место» (фильм братьев Коэн по этой книге получил четыре «Оскара»), «Дорога» (получил Пулитцеровскую премию и также был экранизирован) и «Кони, кони...» (получил Национальную книжную премию США и был перенесен на экран Билли Бобом Торнтоном, главные роли исполнили Мэтт Дэймон и Пенелопа Крус). Но впервые Маккарти прославился именно романом «Кровавый меридиан, или Закатный багрянец на западе», именно после этой книги о нем заговорили не только литературные критики, но и широкая публика. Маститый англичанин Джон Бэнвилл, лауреат Букера, назвал этот роман «своего рода смесью дантова ”Ада“, ”Илиады“ и ”Моби-Дика“». Главный герой «Кровавого меридиана», четырнадцатилетний подросток из Теннеси, известный лишь как «малец», становится героем новейшего эпоса, основанного на реальных событиях и обстоятельствах техасско-мексиканского пограничья середины XIX века, где бурно развивается рынок индейских скальпов… Впервые на русском.
An original screenplay by the great American novelist Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and No Country for Old Men. Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox. The Counsellor is now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s original screenplay is the story of a lawyer who is so seduced by the desire to get rich, to impress his fiancée, that he becomes involved in a risky drug-smuggling venture. His contacts in this high-stakes cocaine trade are the mysterious and probably corrupt Reiner and the seductive Malkina, so exotic her pets of choice are two cheetahs. As the action crosses the Mexican border, things become darker, more violent and more sexually disturbing than he could ever have imagined. Deft, shocking and unforgettable, this gripping tale about risk, consequence and the treacherous balance between the two reveals Cormac McCarthy at his finest.
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Кормак Маккарти - современный американский классик главного калибра, хорошо известный нашему читателю романом "Старикам тут не место" (фильм братьев Коэн по этой книге получил четыре "Оскара"). Его роман "Дорога" в 2007 году получил Пулитцеровскую премию и вот уже более трех лет остается в списках бестселлеров и не сходит с прилавков книжных магазинов. Роман "Дорога" производит неизгладимое впечатление. В какой-то степени это эмоциональный шок! Сюжет прост. После катастрофы Отец и Сын идут через выжженные земли, пересекая континент. Всю книгу пронизывают глубокие, ранящие в самое сердце вопросы. Есть ли смысл жить, если будущего - нет? Вообще нет. Есть ли смысл жить ради детей? Это роман о том, что все в жизни относительно, что такие понятия, как добро и зло, в определенных условиях перестают работать и теряют смысл. Это роман о том, что действительно важно в жизни, и о том, как это ценить. И это также роман о смерти, о том, что все когда-нибудь кончается, и поэтому нужно каждый день принимать таким, какой есть. Нужно просто... жить.
McCarthy's new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction. "The Sunset Limited," though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul.
Ask any literary critic -- and most discerning readers -- to name the greatest living American novelist, and Cormac McCarthy is sure to surface as a major contender. Best known for his powerful regional fiction (Sutree, the Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian, et al), this dazzling prose stylist crafts tragic, unforgettable stories suffused with violence, alienation, and an undeniably apocalyptic vision. Now, in what we consider McCarthy's best novel to date, the apocalypse itself becomes a set piece. Unfolding in a terrifying future where Armageddon has been waged and lost, The Road traces the odyssey of a father and his young son through a desolate landscape of devastation and danger. Powerful, moving, and extraordinary by any standard, this is McCarthy at his greatest and gravest.
Texas welder Llewelyn Moss makes a dubious discovery while out hunting antelope near the banks of the Rio Grande: a dead man, a stash of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Moss packs out the money, knowing his actions will imperil him for the rest of his life. He's soon on the run, left to his own devices against vengeful drug dealers, a former Special Forces agent, and a psychopathic freelance killer with ice blue eyes. Shades of Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Faulkner resonate in McCarthy's blend of lyrical narrative, staccato dialogue, and action-packed scenes splattered with bullets and blood. McCarthy fans will revel in the author's renderings of the raw landscapes of Mexico and the Southwest and the precarious souls scattered along the border that separates the two. Many are the men here who maim in the name of drugs. "If you killed 'em all," says the local sheriff, "they'd have to build an annex onto hell."
Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.
In this third volume of the Border Trilogy we find John Grady, a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession.
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of "All the Pretty Horses."
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. ‘McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters . . . In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill’ Village Voice ‘McCarthy has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious’ New York Times ‘A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time’ Time
"Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time."--Cover.
Dans les années 1850, un gamin de quatorze ans part au Texas rejoindre une bande de chasseurs payés pour exterminer les Indiens. Au milieu du désert, la loi n'existe plus. À ce jeu de massacre, seuls survivent ceux qui parviennent à éveiller la plus profonde et la plus intime sauvagerie... Avec cet anti-western basé sur des faits réels, l'auteur nous livre l'un de ses plus grands romans : noir, lyrique et violent.
'One of the greatest American novels of this or any time' Guardian
A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Suttree marks McCarthy’s closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books’ Stanley Booth
