Cormac McCarthy uses fiction to cross-examine the universe
Cormac McCarthy’s latest novel, Stella Maris, consists entirely of transcripts of conversations in a mental institution between a suicidal genius named Alicia Western and her therapist. Readers of McCarthy’s previous novel, The passengerknow how the story ends: Alicia has already committed suicide when The passenger begin. Stella Maris shares themes and its centrality with The …
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