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Thought provoking piece. I saw this on HBO with Samuel L Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones and thought it was excellent. The book didn't disappoint.
this was a good book and (I'm sad to say) I had to sympathize a lot with what White had to say, because I often feel the same way. But there were some great things to learn from either character.BUT, what I particularly DO NOT LIKE is that even though both characters are only supposed to be known as BLACK and WHITE, the author says "the black" whenever Black does something. As in "the black stood up", but just because Black starts calling White "professor" suddenly all his stage directions say "...
This doesn't have the same meat to it that Mccarthy's other dramatic works do. The Gardener's Son and the Stonemason are bother informed by this really keen sense of place, but the sunset limited has this enforced sort of anonymity to it. Which makes sense given its stripped down parable-ish nature. But that's also what makes it more jarring and gives it it's dark edge. White's last two monologues are probably among the bleakest things Mccarthy's ever written. Even The Road, with it's obvious ap...
"The darker picture is always the correct one. When you read the history of the world, you are reading a saga of bloodshed and greed and folly the import of which is impossible to ignore. And yet we imagine that the future will somehow be different. I've no idea why we are even still here but in all probability we will not be here much longer."I think this dialogue sums up the significance of this play. A quick read with a lot to say about life, faith and the overwhelming need to influence (or h...
White You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You’ve become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.Black That’s a dark world, Professor.White Yes.Black What’s the worst thing ever happen to you?White Getting snatched off a subway platform one morning by an emi...
BLACK. Who's that?WHITE. Who's who?BLACK. Him over there staring at us.WHITE. Beat's me.BLACK. He's coming over.STEVEN. Nice evening ain't it.WHITE. Can I help you?STEVEN. I've just been reading about you guys.BLACK. And.STEVEN. Three stars is about right.WHITE. Excuse me?STEVEN. GR - goodreads, it's a social cataloging/reviewing site for book lovers.BLACK. I see. Three don't sound too good a number to me. What's the problem? Friendo. STEVEN. Look, it's like this, no disrespect to either one of
I am not a fan of Cormac McCarthy—I know he’s great (intellectually I know) but he can’t write women and sometimes I just want punctuation, please? And God knows I have tried with Blood Meridian! I just can’t get through it, just like I can’t get through Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow or DeLillo’s Underworld. As for The Road and No Country for Old Men… well, I thought the movies were good. The Sunset Limited, however, is something else entirely. A friend of mine recommended it even though she knows...
This one-act play forces one to consider opposing perspectives on human existence. True to form, McCarthy doesn’t offer peaches and roses. He offers the sad reality of what life means to two very different men. Despite the dark tone, the play reads extremely well, the dialogue is direct and penetrating. McCarthy is one of the best writers of our time.
Mmm Hmmm. McCarthy gone done it. He gone eclipsed Beckett hisslef. Desolation, I like them sound of that trickbag. Yess.[A full comparative review might happen, though I am not sure I am up to it - Was that the cry of an angel at the end? Was that a re-enactment of Eden, with an angel substituted for the devil? Will man fail in either case? I am not up to it, as I said. All aboard The Sunset Limited. Please.]
Pared down and packed with substance - dark dark humour to boot - Can written dialogues get any better? - Ahh, this merciless vortex of hope and nihilism - these chaotic voices in my head - moved? or depressed? - or just fast becoming a McCarthy fan?
Have you ever been stoned? I don’t mean giggly, ‘who-has-the-munchies?’ high— I’m talking immaculately stoned. Where every single goddamn song is the best song ever written, life is the simplest navigable journey imaginable, and you have figured out that there are no secrets to the universe, only questions to which you have all the answers? (It’s all so simple! Ha!) Yes? Good. Then you’ve already lived this book. Let me explain, but with some personal exegesis. I spent a lot of my years in vario...
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I guess it was bound to happen some time. Cormac McCarthy finally disappointed me. The entire play/novel is a single conversation between two men, identified as Black and White, at a table in Black's apartment. It opens in medias res, after Black (who is black) just saved White (who is white) from leaping in the path of a train, The Sunset Limited, in an attempted suicide. The ex-con Black tries to convince White that suicide is not the solution, telling his own story of Christian redemption. Wh...
Intriguingly and delicately balanced dramatic tension between platonic theism and absurdist atheism. Urban setting could’ve fooled one for another writer but McCarthy’s characteristic metaphysical commentary is as revealing and omnipresent as ever.
Black and White discussing God, Suffering, Death & the Sunset Limited. This novel/play reminds me of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Hesse's Siddhartha and Wiesel's The Trial of God. 'Sunset Limited' has definite moments of intense brilliance, emotional resonance and spiritual affirmation followed by pages of lonely darkness and cold, existential dispair. While it WAS engaging (especially the dialogue), I just didn't think it was novel or transformative. Like WfG, Siddhartha and ToG, the Sunset Lim...
