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6月13日是什么黄道吉日……第一颗是黄永玉：
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第二颗是歌手张恒远：
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第三颗是美国作家Cormac McCarthy：他1933出生于Rhode Island的Providence，家里是爱尔兰天主教徒，父亲是律师，子女共六人。McCarthy的大部分童年在Tennessee的Knoxville度过。他的两部小说——《The Road》（得了普利策奖）和《No Country for Old Man》都被改编为名噪一时的电影，后者得了最佳电影、导演、改编剧本和男配四个奥斯卡奖。他的代表作是《Blood Meridian》，BBC说它是a dark epic set in the American West in the mid-19th Century。

有谁看过电影The Road？我只看过科恩兄弟的No Country for Old Man，冷到骨子里。以前看Fargo也是极其grim，绝不想看第二遍。

McCarthy的小说风格猜想都是这个调调。BBC说"Many of his novels were violent tales describing the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds. In real life, he was said to be a very private man." 然后引用了Stephen King和John Banville两位作家对他的高度评价：

美国恐怖小说作家Stephen King说他可能是"the greatest American novelist of my time".

爱尔兰作家、英国Booker小说奖获得者John Banville说："He was unique. He stood out - he jutted out from the literary landscape like a monolith.

"Sometimes, reading Cormac's prose, especially in Blood Meridian, you say to yourself, 'This is just so far over the top that it's unreal.' And yet it was extraordinarily compelling. I mean, nobody wrote the way he did.

"He did have a very bleak view of life. You did not have many laughs with Cormac. He didn't see the world as a particularly comic place, which I do. But we got on well. I liked him enormously."

作家写的评论文采真好；不过对这位的小说或改编的电影提不起兴趣。

《No Country for Poor Man》闪亮登场

是的。《No Country for Old Man》小说语言好奇怪，写的像剧本一样。记得结局和电影好像不一样。

《The Road》据说惨不忍读。电影我看了一半就看不下去了。太惨了。

《Blood Meridian》据说是他最好的书。但是我读了20页就放弃了。

pathdream 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 11:32 《No Country for Poor Man》闪亮登场

你喜欢这个电影？

wh. 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 11:48 你喜欢这个电影？

《No Country for Poor Man》这电影还没拍 正在酝酿当中

YouHi 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 11:42 是的。《No Country for Poor Man》小说语言好奇怪，写的像剧本一样。记得结局和电影好像不一样。

《The Road》据说惨不忍读。电影我看了一半就看不下去了。太惨了。

《Blood Meridian》据说是他最好的书。但是我读了20页就放弃了。

哇，你是文学爱好者！我去查了查他的身世，他也没受过什么苦难。貌似是个自私的怪人：
"After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". There, the couple had a son, Cullen, in 1962. While Lee cared for the baby and tended to the chores of the house, Cormac asked her to get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing. Dismayed with the situation, she moved to Wyoming, where she filed for divorce and landed her first job teaching."

wh. 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 12:00 哇，你是文学爱好者！我去查了查他的身世，他也没受过什么苦难。貌似是个自私的怪人：
"After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". There, the couple had a son, Cullen, in 1962. While Lee cared for the baby and tended to the chores of the house, Cormac asked her to get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing. Dismayed with the situation, she moved to Wyoming, where she filed for divorce and landed her first job teaching."

昏倒

pathdream 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 11:53 《No Country for Poor Man》这电影还没拍 正在酝酿当中

哦，哈哈，我看错了。你的处女作？

pathdream 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 12:06昏倒

早年赤贫，嗜读：
"While living in the French Quarter in New Orleans, McCarthy was expelled from a $40-a-month room for failing to pay his rent. When he traveled the country, McCarthy always carried a 100-watt bulb in his bag so he could read at night, no matter where he was sleeping."

"In 1969, the couple moved to Louisville, Tennessee, and purchased a dairy barn, which McCarthy renovated, doing the stonework himself. According to DeLisle (his first wife), the couple lived in "total poverty", bathing in a lake."

作品主题暴力，主角惨无人性：
"McCarthy's novels often depict explicit violence. Many of his works have been characterized as nihilistic, particularly Blood Meridian.

The bleak outlook of the future, and the inhuman foreign antagonist Anton Chigurh of No Country for Old Men, is said to reflect the apprehension of the post-9/11 era. Many of his works portray individuals in conflict with society and acting on instinct rather than on emotion or thought. Another theme throughout many of McCarthy's works is the ineptitude or inhumanity of those in authority and particularly in law enforcement. This is seen in Blood Meridian with the murder spree the Glanton Gang initiates because of the bounties, the "overwhelmed" law enforcement in No Country for Old Men, and the corrupt police officers in All the Pretty Horses. As a result, he has been labeled the "great pessimist of American literature."

wh. 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 12:00 哇，你是文学爱好者！我去查了查他的身世，他也没受过什么苦难。貌似是个自私的怪人：
"After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, McCarthy "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". There, the couple had a son, Cullen, in 1962. While Lee cared for the baby and tended to the chores of the house, Cormac asked her to get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing. Dismayed with the situation, she moved to Wyoming, where she filed for divorce and landed her first job teaching."

天才多半奇怪。

文有McCarthy Cormac，画有Vincent Van Gogh。
他们做不了艳阳天里面的灼灼红日，只能做暗夜里的幽幽星汉。熠熠星徽，纵有微瑕又有何妨。黑夜和白昼，是生命里的两面缺一不可。

YouHi 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 12:45 天才多半奇怪。

反社会人格。跟杀人犯差不多啊。

iBull 写了： 2023年 6月 19日 12:54 文有McCarthy Cormac，画有Vincent Van Gogh。
他们做不了艳阳天里面的灼灼红日，只能做暗夜里的幽幽星汉。熠熠星徽，纵有微瑕又有何妨。黑夜和白昼，是生命里的两面缺一不可。

梵高还是很有人性的吧？灯光下吃土豆的穷人们。暖洋洋的向日葵。
芥川龙之介笔下的地狱变画家庶几近之，如疯如魔。