Cormac McCarthy

"Ja, det är mästerligt. Bara att hoppas att McCarthy som fyller 90 i sommar kan fortsätta att skriva och inte måste avbryta sig för att ta emot Nobelpriset." Sveriges Radios KulturnyttCormac McCarthy återkommer äntligen för första gången sedan den internationella succén med "Vägen" (2008). De två romanerna "Passageraren" och "Stella Maris" ges ut i en volym och kan läsas som två perspektiv på samma berättelse.1980. Bobby Western dyker ner i det mörka vattnet, till flygplanet som kraschat utanför Mississippis kust. Det skulle vara tio passagerare ombord menen person saknas. Snart märker Bobby att han förföljs av män i kostym, men också av minnen som vägrar ge honom ro. Minnen av fadern, som byggde en bomb som kom att påverka hela 1900-talets historia, och av den älskade systern, Bobbys tvillingsjäl, hans allt.1972. Med en plastpåse i handen innehållande fyrtiotusen dollar skriver Alicia Western in sig på den psykiatriska kliniken Stella Maris i Wisconsin. Hon är blott tjugo år gammal men doktorerar redan i matematik. Via samtal med en psykiatriker följer vi Alicias vindlande hallucinatoriska berättelse till barndomens trauman men även frågan om naturens beskaffenhet och den mänskliga själens existens. I den smärtsamma saknaden efter sin bror ifrågasätter hon förutsättningarna för vår tillvaro på jorden. Med "Passageraren" och "Stella Maris" har Cormac McCarthy skrivit två romaner om moral och vetenskap, om sinnessjukdom och den galenskap som är det mänskliga samvetet.

Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI seg n el New York Times BESTSELLER NACIONAL - GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER - Una demoledora f bula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor. La carretera, novela galardonada con el premio Pulitzer 2007 y bestseller literario del a o en Estados Unidos, transcurre en la inmensidad del territorio norteamericano, un paisaje literalmente quemado por lo que parece haber sido un reciente holocausto nuclear. En un mundo apocal ptico donde llueve ceniza, un hombre y un chico cruzan a pie el territorio norteamericano en direcci n al sur. El hambre es mucho m s que una preocupaci n diaria: es la medida de todas las cosas, y las bandas de can bales asolan el pa s convertido en un yermo donde solo la barbarie ha echado ra ces. El amor de un padre por su hijo es, sin embargo, la nica luz de una tierra que ha perdido a sus dioses. Quiz el fuego de la civilizaci n no se haya apagado para siempre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful", according to San Francisco Chronicle. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, are sustained by love.

A concluding addition to The Passenger, the hallucinogenic masterpiece from the legendary author of The Road and Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.

Wisconsin, 1972: Tjue år gammel og med førti tusen dollar i en plastpose legger matematikeren Alicia Western seg inn på et psykiatrisk sykehus. Hun har skremmende hallusinasjoner – men etter hvert blir de en slags trygghet for henne. Alicia er en briljant matematiker og har lange, utfordrende samtaler med terapeuten sin om vitenskap, filosofi, erkjennelse og mening. Men broren Bobby Western nekter hun å snakke om. Stella Maris er en utfordrende og tankevekkende samtaleroman om forholdet mellom bevissthet og virkelighet, tanker og språk, fornuft og galskap. Boken utgis samtidig i Norge som i USA og England.

The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road. GOD. TRUTH. EXISTENCE. Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career... An achievement greater than Blood Meridian...or... The Road." --The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

An artfully designed box set of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's final masterpiece, told in two volumes, each a New York Times bestseller The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue. Together they relate the thrilling story of a brother and sister, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God. The Passenger "A brilliant book . . . A stunning accomplishment . . . It's Cormac McCarthy writing as only Cormac McCarthy can."--Los Angeles Times 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western, a salvage diver, zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Stella Maris "Cormac McCarthy has never been better. . . . Incandescent with life."--The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western is twenty years old when she arrives at a psychiatric facility with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career... An achievement greater than Blood Meridian...or... The Road." --The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy's career... An achievement greater than Blood Meridian...or... The Road." --The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

En icke namngiven plats i Appalacherna, kanske någon gång runt sekelskiftet 1900. En kvinna föder sin brors barn i en isolerad bergsstuga, en pojke. Brodern lämnar barnet i skogen och berättar för systern att det dog av naturliga orsaker. När hon upptäcker sin brors lögn ger hon sig ensam ut för att hitta sin son. Genom en mardrömslik landsbygd hemsökt av tre skrämmande och gäckande främlingar färdas de båda syskonen, var för sig, rakt mot den obarmhärtiga och kusliga, apokalyptiska upplösningen. Mörkret utanför är Cormac McCarthys allegoriska och fabulöst suggestiva roman från 1968 som nu presenteras på svenska för första gången. Initierat efterord av Fredrik Svensson, fil.dr i engelsk litteratur.” Detta är en roman som utmanar läsaren på alla nivåer." - The Guardian ”… en mästerlig roman av en av vår tids största författare. McCarthy skildrar en värld som är lika skrämmande som den är vacker, och hans språk är lika poetiskt som det är brutalt." - The New York Times Book Review“Cormac McCarthy är en av vår tids största amerikanska författare.”- HAROLD BLOOM“McCarthy har gjort det mytiska verkligt, det alldagliga gåtfullt.” - NEW YORK TIMES“Spoilervarning: ingen rättvisa, inget ljus, väntar oss i Mörkret utanför.” - GRIMDARK MAGAZINE“Ett stilistiskt mästarprov.” -THE SATIRIST

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy's early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later work." --The New York Times Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, is available now. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

One of Americas greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book a pair of books, together a masterpiece a decade in the making. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilots flightbag, the planes black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

A salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, becomes involved in a conspiracy he cannot comprehend - and is haunted by his family's dark past.

Mississippi, 1980: Klokken tre om natten ikler Bobby Western seg våtdrakt og dykker ned i et mørkt hav. I et styrtet fly på havbunnen ser han ni døde passasjerer fastspent i setene, med flytende hår og tomme blikk. Den tiende passasjeren og flyets svarte boks er borte. Etter dette hjemsøkes Bobby Western av politimenn og myndigheter, av spøkelset etter faren som var med på oppfinnelsen av atombomben, og ikke minst av kjærligheten til søsteren som mistet forstanden. En av de største amerikanske forfatterne i vår tid, Cormac McCarthy, er endelig tilbake med en kompleks, dyp og elegant roman. Med Passasjeren leverer han nok et slagferdig epos om maskulinitet, krig, død, tap og skjønnhet. Boken utgis samtidig i Norge som i USA og England.

Genudgivelse i paperback. En far og hans tiårige søn vandrer alene gennem et udbrændt Amerika. Intet rører sig, bortset fra asken i vinden. Det er så koldt, at sten flækker, og når sneen falder, er den grå. Deres mål er kysten, selv om de ikke aner, hvad der venter dem - om noget overhovedet. De har intet med sig, kun en pistol til at forsvare sig mod lovløse bander, det tøj, de har på, en indkøbsvogn med dåsemad - og hinanden. VEJEN er en intens historie om en nådesløs rejse. Den fremmaner en fremtid uden håb, hvor en far og hans søn udholder mareridtet i kraft af deres kærlighed til hinanden.

Genudgivelse i paperback. En ung dreng stikker af hjemmefra og slutter sig til John Joel Glantons bande, der i midten af 1800-tallet jager krigsførende apacheindianere på grænsen mellem Texas og Mexico. Snart myrder de også fredelige indianere, mexicanske soldater, uskyldige civile og alle andre, der kommer i vejen. Hurtigt bliver drengen suget ind i en mareridtsagtig verden, hvor vold dominerer, og markedet for indianerskalpe blomstrer. I baggrunden truer den dæmoniske dommer Holden. Han har et barns uskyldige ansigt, ikke et hår på kroppen, en utæmmet tilbøjelighed til vold og en endeløs viden om den verden, han rider hærgende igennem. BLODETS MERIDIAN, Cormac McCarthys hovedværk, baserer sig på virkelige begivenheder under Amerikas ekspansion mod vest.