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Robert Hass
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Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark
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chiaroscuro
(it)
(noun, Italian for light and dark) an oil painting technique developed during the Renaissance that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to model three-dimensional forms
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dark with the consciousness of human fate, and besotted with the high adjectival style of that consciousness as it lifts a coming-of-age narrative to the level of brilliant chiaroscuro meditation
ughhhh i love the way he writes
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dark with the consciousness of human fate, and besotted with the high adjectival style of that consciousness as it lifts a coming-of-age narrative to the level of brilliant chiaroscuro meditation
ughhhh i love the way he writes
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picaresque
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to rogues or rascals / (adjective) of, relating to, suggesting, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist / (noun) one that is picaresque
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blending between the medieval romance and the early picaresque novel
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blending between the medieval romance and the early picaresque novel
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mendicant
(en)
(noun) beggar / (noun) a member of a religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property; friar
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the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments
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the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments
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vatic
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(adjective) prophetic, oracular; describing or predicting what will happen in the future
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lapidary
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relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing
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McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn
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McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn
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