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How McCarthy Hooked A Philosopher
- Patrick O'Connor discovered Cormac McCarthy after a friend gave him Blood Meridian and later The Road.
- Blood Meridian shocked him, while The Road pulled him back into McCarthy's work and sparked deeper study.
Place Over Character
- McCarthy foregrounds place and geography, letting characters 'float above' setting.
- Language and landscape often dominate character psychology in his novels.
Language As Ontological Mutilation
- McCarthy repeatedly probes language as a tool that particularizes and 'owns' reality.
- Naming fragments a primordial reality and can amount to an ontological mutilation, in McCarthy's view.