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Abstract
The contemporary American writer, Cormac McCarthy (1933), has duced many highly appreciated literary works that reflect the diversity
cerning his literature. It is evident that in his early novels he was deeply
enced by the southern environment of the border area of East Tennessee and alachia, articulating its culture, myth and character. Leaving this area and
ving to EI-Paso in the southwest, his attitude shifted to the Western genre as vailed in his works that belong to that period. Nevertheless, McCarthy’s later
ks exhibit a rather different and diverse overview. That is, Cormac McCarthy nifests his most profound philosophical perspectives of human existence and relation with nature. Among the philosophical notions that are explicitly
ected are the movements of Naturalism and the Absurd. Both philosophical vements are mainly concerned with the meaning of human existence and the tual relation between man and his surrounding universe. Nevertheless, each vement celebrates its own unique style of philosophical thought and
rspectives.
Naturalism centers on the theory that represents a scientific knowledgment of man and elaborates him as devoid from any proportion of free ’II. Man’s fate is gradually determined by the overwhelming forces of natural laws. ch decision or activity performed by any individual is relatively determined by a eviously performed action that substantially leads to the present human
’uation.
Nonetheless, this type of philosophical thought has positively found its
y into literature, as it has lead to the outcome of what is now recognized as the nre of Literary Naturalism. However, this literary genre manifests a set of literary nstructions that are deployed in its techniques, themes, plot, and
aracterization. The overall textual occupation that characterizes the novel is
epicted as lean and simple that lacks any artifice quality. The apparent usage of is type of textual informality and the presented regional dialect integrates a
ense of realism and a slice-of-Iife quality that is necessarily a prominent aspect of e literary genre of naturalism. Nevertheless, in concern of the proposed themes ithin the naturalistic literature, the theme of determinism is recognized as the aminating theme within this genre. This specific theme depicts human individuals as devoid from any proportion of free will. Nevertheless, derived from the theme of determinism a whole set of thematic constructions, namely, survival, violence and taboo. Nevertheless, the theme of mechanisms and technologies has been also introduced as a rather prominent theme of literary naturalism. In addition, the
characters of this specific genre are depicted as unheroic and do not propose subj
extreme wealth or education. Moreover, the characters are most likely to face utte
obscure and gloomy endings.
Eventually, this literary genre is evidently proposed within the events of per
Cormac McCarthy’s ninth novel No Country for Old Men. All the characters are ab~
victims of an overruling and controlling fate as they are deprived from any free will the
of action. Moreover, Cormac McCarthy embodies this dictating force within his an
psychopath character Chigurh who has overcome all the remaining characters and rei
manages to disappear at the end of the novel like a ghost. Throughout the novel, at
the characters are engaged within a constant battle with Chigurh attempting to th
escape him. These attempts evoke the instincts of survival and violence within ur
these individuals. At the same time each character comes in contact with certain e’
mechanisms that enhance his attempts and in a way reflect his deep personality.
Moreover, these individuals do not reflect any heroic qualities or elevated wealth or
education.