Cormac McCarthy: Remembering unique individualism of ‘uncompromising’ American novelist

It is better, perhaps, and definitely more accurate to consider McCarthy one of the most uncompromising of American writers. For both good and ill.We see McCarthy’s uncompromising nature most vividly on the page, in terms of his prose style and conventions. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.”That interview with Oprah is itself an example of McCarthy’s uncompromising nature. McCarthy leaves behind an unparalleled body of work, books that read of obsession and passion, of fierce and dedicated labour. He may not be the last great American writer, but McCarthy was, truly, the last of his kind.