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.