Cormac Mccarthy Books Are Made Out Of Books. There are some influences that surprised me. Michael crews has recently published a book about mccarthy called books are made out of books, which is a quote from the woodward interview.
“the ugly fact is that books are made out of books,” he said in one of his rare engagements with the media, “ the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” mccarthy has drawn considerable influence from the likes of faulkner, joyce, melville, and to lesser extents, writers like dostoevsky and flannery o’connor. Books are made out of books: Cormac mccarthy told an interviewer for the new york times magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers.
This bulky volume is a compendium of the sources of cormac mccarthy’s fiction, with entries arranged chronologically in thirteen chapters, from mccarthy’s the orchard keeper, to whales and men and his correspondence.
Crews went through mccarthy’s archives and wrote about all of the different authors that he seems to be alluding to, or mentions explicitly in his correspondence, in his notes for a manuscript. Books are made out of books : Books are made out of books : Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to.