Кровавый меридиан, или Закатный багрянец на западе

Kormak Makkarti - sovremennyĭ amerikanskiĭ klassik glavnogo kalibra, laureat Makarturovskoĭ stipendii "Za genialʹnostʹ", master slozhnykh perezhivaniĭ i nestandartnogo sintaksisa, khorosho izvestnyĭ nashemu chitateli͡u romanami "Starikam tut ne mesto" (filʹm bratʹev Koėn po ėtoĭ knige poluchil chetyre "Oskara"), "Doroga" (poluchil Pulit͡serovskui͡u premii͡u i takzhe byl ėkranizirovan) i "Pogranichnoĭ trilogieĭ" (pervyĭ roman kotoroĭ, "Koni, koni…", poluchil Nat͡sionalʹnui͡u knizhnui͡u premii͡u SShA i byl perenesen na ėkran Billi Bobom Torntonom, glavnye roli ispolnili Mėtt Deĭmon i Penelopa Krus). No vpervye Makkarti proslavilsi͡a imenno romanom "Krovavyĭ meridian, ili Zakatnyĭ bagri͡anet͡s na zapade", imenno posle ėtoĭ knigi o nem zagovorili ne tolʹko literaturnye kritiki, no i shirokai͡a publika. Mastityĭ anglichanin Dzhon Bėnvill, laureat Bukera, nazval ėtot roman "svoego roda smesʹi͡u Dantova "Ada", "Iliady" i "Mobi Dika"". Glavnyĭ geroĭ "Krovavogo meridiana", chetyrnadt͡satiletniĭ podrostok iz Tennessi, izvestnyĭ lishʹ kak "malet͡s", stanovitsi͡a geroem noveĭshego ėposa, osnovannogo na realʹnykh sobytii͡akh i obstoi͡atelʹstvakh tekhassko-meksikanskogo pogranichʹi͡a serediny XIX veka, gde burno razvivaetsi͡a rynok indeĭskikh skalʹpov. . . "Krovavyĭ meridian" byl vnesen v spisok "100 luchshikh knig na angliĭskom i͡azyke, izdannykh v period s 1923 po 2005 god" po versii zhurnala Time. V 2006 godu The New York Times pomestila ėtot roman na vtoroe mesto spiska luchsheĭ amerikanskoĭ prozy, opublikovannoĭ za poslednie 25 let.

Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber, winner of the MacArthur Scholarship "For Genius", a master of complex experiences and non—standard syntax, well known to our reader for the novels "Old People don't Belong Here" (the Coen brothers film based on this book won four Oscars), "The Road" (won the Pulitzer Prize and was also adapted into a film) and the "Frontier Trilogy" (whose first novel, "Horses, Horses...", won the US National Book Award and was brought to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz). But for the first time McCarthy became famous for the novel "The Bloody Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West," it was after this book that not only literary critics, but also the general public began to talk about him. The venerable Englishman John Banville, the Booker Prize winner, called this novel "a kind of mixture of Dante's Inferno, Iliad and Moby Dick." The main character of "Bloody Meridian", a fourteen-year-old teenager from Tennessee, known only as "the kid", becomes the hero of the latest epic based on real events and circumstances of the Texas-Mexican border region in the middle of the 19th century, where the market for Indian scalps is booming . . . "Bloody Meridian" was included in the list of "100 best books on in English, published in the period from 1923 to 2005" according to Time magazine. In 2006, The New York Times placed this novel in second place on the list of the best American prose published in the last 25 years.