Bloody meridian, or Sunset crimson in the west

McCarthy Kormak is a modern American classic of the main caliber, the laureate of the Makarturovsky scholarship “For genius”, a master of complex experiences and non -standard syntax, well known to our reader with the novels “The Old Men” (the film of the Cohen brothers, on this book, received four Oscars), “ The road ”(received the Pulitseri Prize and was also filmed) and the“ border trilogy ”(the first novel of which,“ horses, horses ... ”received the National Book Prize of the United States and was transferred to the screen Billy Boba Thornton, the main roles were played by Matt Damon and Penelope Cruis ) But for the first time, McCarthy became famous precisely by the novel “The Bloody Meridian, or the Handing of the Bagryan in the West,” it was after this book that not only literary critics, but also the general public spoke about him. The venerable Englishman John Banville, laureate of Boker, called this novel “A kind of mixture of Dantov "Ada", "Iliad" and "Moby Dika".” The protagonist of the Bloody Meridian, a fourteen-year-old teenager from Tennessee, is known only as a “little one”, becomes the hero of the latest epic based on the real events and circumstances of the Texas-Mexican borderlands of the mid-19th century, where the Indian scalps market is rapidly developing ...
The Bloody Meridian was included in the list of “100 best books in English published from 1923 to 2005” according to Time magazine. In 2006, The New York Times placed this novel in second place in the list of the best American prose, published over the past 25 years