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25 ott 2022 · The story is about him dealing with the grief of losing his beloved younger sister Alicia, who, after leaving the Stella Maris mental institution, commits suicide. Most of the narrative focuses on Western drifting through his life - whereas once, before she killed herself, he had drive and agency, now he is passive, like a passenger, letting life take him where it will; he doesn’t care anymore.
2 dic 2022 · The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy, Knopf Doubleday, 400 pages, $41. Knopf Doubleday. “Stella Maris” is certainly a more open-ended book, and it’s an openness that casts a shadow back onto ...
25 ott 2022 · The Passenger and Stella Maris together form a profound addition to the legacy of a true literary savant.” —Ed Tarkington, Chapter 16 “[McCarthy] rockets readers into the black hole at the hub of his galactic imagination, an event horizon so rich and dense we can only marvel as we fall through its warped fabric….Like Moses, McCarthy seeks a land of milk and honey beyond the rim of the ...
19 ott 2022 · The experience of reading Cormac McCarthy’s new novel, “The Passenger” — alongside its twisted sister, “Stella Maris,” which comes out later this year — kept making me think about ...
26 ott 2022 · Now, with the publication of two new, linked McCarthy novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, it’s time to dust off that caveat again. At first, The Passenger, published this week, seems poised ...
Readers who might otherwise be keen on the Passenger's brilliant structure, its philsophical and thematic play, are also going to feel jipped (at least somewhat) because not only will they have to wait two months for the skeleton key (i.e. Stella Maris), but the skeleton key is like 200 pages of someone who's holding the elevator door open to keep talking to you while you're trying to go up.
28 set 2023 · Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris is a profoundly moving companion to The Passenger. It is a powerful enquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and life itself by one of America’s finest writers. ‘Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and ...
