![]() ![]() After the first two chapters, you’ll grow accustomed to the style, or it might be a skip. Blood Meridian is more accessible than many of his other novels regardless, it still provides a difficult reading experience for those unaccustomed to his style. McCarthy provides brutal and challenging prose. I hope we will see more of her translated work in the future.Ĭheck out what else we’re reading here at Haunted MTL.Ĭormac McCarthy What I Dislike, or Food for Thought The Houseguest & Other Stories is a truly unsettling page turner. Dávila is a master of testing the boundaries of fear and the unknowable. He hovers over the women as they pretend to sleep, he nearly kills a little boy, he pushes the family to their limits until they have none left. We don’t know who or what he is we only know his behavior. ![]() “I’ll never forget the day he came to live with us”īegins “The Houseguest.” This story tells us of a woman whose husband lets a stranger live with their family. She creates characters whom she describes only through the protagonists’ terror. While these stories rarely exceed 20 pages, most around the 10-15 mark, the lives and worlds she has written are so vivid you’d think you were witnessing them in real life. Throughout the collection, there are moments where Dávila’s writing is almost cosmic. ![]()
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