Eminent literary
critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists
of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth!
Bloom has also called
this author’s book ‘BM’ as ‘the greatest single book since William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying!
This renowned author
has also won the coveted National Book Award and the National Book Critics
Circle Award as well!
The Coen brothers
adapted one of his works into a film of the same name, and surprisingly, the
film went on to win a whopping four Academy Awards and more than 80 film awards
from around the world.
One of his novels has
also won high international fame and acclaim along with bagging the reputed
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction!
Added, this author is
also known for making very sparse use of diacritical marks and punctuations in
his works! Indeed, he’s one of those unique writers who doesn’t believe in
using quotation marks for any of his dialogues, as he is of the firm opinion
that there is no reason to ‘blot the page up’ with weird little marks!
He’s got a point
there, ain’t he?
So here’s remembering
a wonderful legend on his birth anniversary today!
Yes! You guessed it
right!
He’s Cormac McCarthy,
the writer of such famed reads as, Blood
Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road, et al!
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| How trueee! ;-) |
Unputdownables by the
number he’s given us all!
Thank you Cormac
McCarthy for creating such new worlds for us through your words! Ever grateful
to ya!
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