The road

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Cormac McCarthy: The road (2009, Vintage International)

287 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2009 by Vintage International.

ISBN:
978-0-307-47630-2
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OCLC Number:
368020910

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5 stars (2 reviews)

Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the roads and inhabit what few dwellings remain intact in the woods.

Through this nightmarish residue of America a haggard father and his young son attempt to flee the oncoming Appalachian winter and head towards the southern coast along carefully chosen back roads. Mummified corpses are their only benign companions, sitting in doorways and automobiles, variously impaled or displayed on pikes and tables and in cake bells, or they rise in frozen poses of horror and agony out of congealed asphalt. The boy and his father …

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Pietra miliare post apocalittica

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I romanzi distopici di solito presentano dei mondi, immaginati nei dettagli, qui non c'è quasi niente. Non c'è neanche quella denuncia sociale o politica tipica dei romanzi distopici. Parla più della natura umana. Qui non c'è quasi niente, una strada che non porta da nessuna parte, che attraversa il nulla rimasto inutilmente, non c'è un passato, non c'è un futuro, non ci sono ragioni o spigazioni. Scarno, essenziale, scheletrico, nudo e crudo, freddo e oscuro, questo inferno, alla fine, parla della bontà.

En mi carretera

4 stars

Así como a los vinos les afecta el terroir, el clima, la contaminación ambiental, el maridaje escogido, las condiciones meteorológicas y lugar donde se prueba y hasta la compañía de quien lo cata etc., los libros se ven afectados por el lugar, el tiempo y el estado de ánimo de quien los lee. Es por ello que siempre aclaro que las estrellas con las que los califico hablan de mi disfrute, no de aspectos técnicos o la maestría con que estén abiertos. Tal es el caso de La carretera, de Cormac McCarthy.

Duda: ¿En qué difiere el nunca será de lo que nunca fue?

Este libro estaba en mi mesa de noche cuando mi papá murió. Lo comencé unos días antes. Se mantuvo sin leer casi una semana y media. Y para colmo, el tema parecía embonar perfectamente con lo que acontecía en mi vida en esos momentos. Estas …

Subjects

  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
  • Voyages and travels -- Fiction
  • Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction
  • Survival skills -- Fiction