The Literary Legacy of Cormac McCarthy: Exploring Human Extremes and Subversive Cinema.

Cormac McCarthy, one of the finest American writers of his generation, died at the age of 89. His 12 novels largely depict time as an obliterating force, human life as a momentary spark in an anonymous abyss. McCarthy was a masterful prose stylist, arguably the last surviving heir of what you could call the Old Testament-Melville-Faulkner strain of American writing. His novels are full of human feeling, but emotions are fragile byproducts in McCarthy’s world. They influence events only weakly. They may be wholly meaningless.