"Blood Meridian" - Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

La danse macabre - an artistic genre of late medieval allegory on the universality of death. I blame a French lit class that I took in college for leading me to make this immediate connection upon finishing this book, but doing so helps me to quantify the incredible intensity of both gruesome narrative and philosophical commentary that somehow condensed itself into less than 350 pages. After reading both Blood Meridian and The Road , I have begun to develop a fascination with McCarthy’s ability to tell so much in his omission of unnecessary facts, his omission of distracting detail and his inclusion of only the most relevant and impacting elements, and the most meaningful thoughts to convey an even more illuminating truth. This was a difficult read, because of the subject matter, but I will confess, it was worth it.

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