Carmac McCarthy – The Road

After reading excellent reviews of McCarthy’s book I just bought two of them from amazon. Lately I seem to stumble into books that are not bad, but not that great either.

The storyline centers about a man and his son travelling through post-apocalyptic america into the south. Why? we do not now. How did the apocalypse happen? We do not know. Most of the few survivors turned into cannibals, so human contact is not favoured.

The books style is very interessting. Prosa, with very few punctuation marks and extremly short paragraphs and no hierarchy otherwise. It seems like turning in into a series of flashbacks: the world is described as grey and black (ashes mask the sun) and after three to four sentences the scene fades away. The overall picture drawn is very depressing. The two protagonists are slowly dying over the course of the 250 pages, the father even more so.

I really embraced the dark end-time spirit, the last three pages didn’t remain well in my memory as they broke with the permanent theme of the book.

There are many memorable quotes, as:

• Do you wish to die? No. But I might wish I had died.
• There is no god and we are his prophets.

I’m not too sure if I like McCarthy or not, but I do have another of his book to get clear about it.

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