Publisher's Synopsis
Cormac McCarthy seeks to understand human community, the bonds of love which mark humanity, and the impact when those bonds are broken. Throughout his career, however, his work has increasingly focused on a quest for some spiritual core to existence, unfolding against a backdrop of modernity in crisis. These preoccupations can be read in the context of St Augustine's City of Man and the search for passage into the City of God: there is the dualistic nature of man, with his ability to love and his capacity for evil, driven by the promise of salvation beyond the material realm. This ground-breaking study uses the political philosophy of Eric Voegelin to analyse what appears to be a sustained sense of hostility to modernity in McCarthy's fiction.
