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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

The Southern Gothic style he's greatly influenced by has a lot of that. His books wouldn't have the same vibe without it, it replicates a kind of racing thought which imbues the language with a dreamlike quality. William Faulkner's books, as a comparison, feel very sleepy and hypnagogic; it emulates the feeling of heat haze and slow-burn Southern anxiety.
McCarthy's book have another fairly common genetic marker of the Southern Gothic style, which is the whole "absurdity of modernity" slant that's apparent in books like Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men. You find ways to make the method reflect the subtext.

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