Saturday, April 30, 2011

Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

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Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. A western novel at its core, it satisfies, and then some, all of the requisites of the genre. Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the untouched spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and of similar importance, the Mexican Northwest. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most worrying undercurrent. There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the totally open spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and of equal importance, the Mexican Northwest. A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism, poetry, story, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by monstrous characters that are still definitely plausible in all of their ott malevolent. The banality of this hell world perhaps is its most annoying undercurrent. Published in 1986, Blood Meridian is intrinsically timeless. He had a particularly colourful background like so many other Texan front-runners. Shades of todays Blackwater and personal mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the U. S. .

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