Cormac McCarthy on Writing Novels Without Technology
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Why do most of Cormac McCarthy's novels occur in a pre-industrial society without technology? How did Cormac think technology separated us from the world and our best writing? Today we will analyze a lengthy quote from McCarthy about his decisions in writing novels set in the early 20th century.
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He doesn't put a lot of technology in his novels because it would date the book. And he's a literary writer so he tries to avoid that.
That’s a very clever thought.
People spend 7 hours a day on their phone ( Gen Z). When you go out to dinner or you are out with others, you see people on their phone. All in an effort to avoid the harshness of reality. Rustin Cohle in True Detective told us that he wouldn’t advert his eyes.
It’s such a shame that in concerts no one is having a real experience and how in my classrooms people are on their computer or mobile device.
While I do agree that it is more how you use technology, it usually makes things worse for people and people misuse technology for the worse.
And the irony is that we communicate methods of dissent towards technology through technology, like how anti government dissent can be used for capitalist gain in the end.
I've watched quite a few of your videos. This is one of your best. Keep up the good work.
I like the comparisons you made between Tolstoy, Proust and Hemingway regarding interiority.
I think you’re right about the technology. Check out “Exxon” by Robert Wrigley. It’s a poem you can google that was in the New Yorker. It does a great job combining many things.
One of the reasons I love McCarthy is because he has a talent for his sentences to gain power and resonance as he goes on. Like a web or building where you can’t take out one word or the whole thing falls down.
My poetry teacher in college, Robert Wrigley said he thought Cormac, in his Blood Meridian l, is the best American poet of all time. And he even said his opinion contradicts his own opinion that poetry is about the right margin, which blood meridian doesn’t have because it’s prose. So BM is so good that it broke everyone’s brain with its language and music and meaning and sense that all came together with crisp and powerful images
Started reading his books and ur channel is the perfect companion to go with them thank u again
Great video, thank you
Great vid. "Weird Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon" delves into the hippie cointelpro movement really well
I miss you!
I appreciate living on the edge of electrification
Chasing storms
Denying death
Disassociation is part of living an authentic existence now. It's like an hallucination just being alive.
I look forward to podcasts as if I was hearing from people I actually knew. I socialize daily, playing video games with a small group of people whose faces I could not pick out of a line up and yet I know about their families and their childhood embarrassments.
Ever since radio and television we've been coping with the surreality of over stimulation. How weird is it to see things outside your own mind, and that you are a passive or limited participant.
Now, people are generally so used to this strangeness it hardly seems strange unless you really make a point of idealizing the past.
It's hard to know what it means to be disconnected from our own existence. I understand why we value simplicity as being more authentic buy aren't the Amish sort of like the biggest cosplay dorks ever?
Off topic, why does black metal and dark ambient go so well with McCarthy?
How was 1Q84?
Bloated, too long.
The road is a post industrial world
Stella Maris is literally entirely an examination of a woman’s interiority
I love McCarthy. I think your channel is great but most McCarthy fans I’ve met have the most obvious and basic takes of his work and try to make it sound greater than it is. Not to say he isn’t great. Also so many seem to be hipsters and effeminate men. Ive met staunch commies who’ve been like McCarthys work is deconstruction and leftist in spirit. It’s maddening hearing such false takes tbh. I don’t think McCarthy is interested at all in politics. But his influences of Nietzsche, Heraclitus and Spengler are very evident and they are philosophically as far from communism as you can get. To McCarthy violence and war itself can be spiritual and transcendent. He can be in many ways a amoralist. I don’t see the nihilism in his work so many assert. It’s odd because his topics and style is unapologetically manly and rough. Maybe they are drawn to this subconsciously. He even makes us relate to things we otherwise wouldn’t but are you could sat forgotten. The Judge is a great example like Miltons Satan or Captain Ahab as men we understand even if some of their actions seem so evil, this primal or what Spengler named Faustian spirit that helps progress civilisation in strange and violent ways.
I wrote my senior thesis on Ahab and the Judge, so the comparison is appreciated
Cormac McCarthy = Ted Kasinski
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The Wild West was the single most popular genre for television and film for most of McCarthy's formative years.
Maybe McCarthy was just trying to breathe literary fire into something that always loomed in the background.
@@FrancisGo.Beautiful theory.