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Stella Maris – Cormac McCarthy’s latest has all the darkness with no dawn
The renowned author’s nihilistic novel Stella Maris is crammed with painful mathematical and philosophical acrobatics – and that’s the easy part
In a certain light – or in the dark – nihilism makes a lot of sense. Everyone you love is going to die and all you can hope for is to go into the ground before they do. Jump up and down all you like, Cormac McCarthy writes in his new novel, but the “unpleasant truth” is that this world which “has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy” doesn’t even ...
