Recent Cormac McCarthy Interview
Posted: Nov 25, 2009A Rare Cormac McCarthy Interview
Since The Road is now showing in theatres I thought I’d dispatch this recent Cormac McCarthy interview. McCarthy hates interviews and sometimes a decade may pass before he decides to answer any questions regarding his work. Besides the 2008 Oprah sit-down, McCarthy's last official interview I believe was in 1992. This recent Wall Street Journal Q & A provides sharp insight to some of McCarthy’s literary perspectives, his southern background, family members, faith, friends and other projects.
This weekend I’ll see John Hillcoat’s adaptation of McCarthy’s The Road, starring Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall and Kodi McPhee. As a McCarthy fan, I anticipate quite an experience. This is a story based on the love between a parent and child. It stands as McCarthy’s brightest, most resonating story even though it operates in a bleak landscape. My favorite part of this recent WSJ interview with McCarthy contains a key to a timeless artistic question where he says:
"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. Things I've written about are no longer of any interest to me, but they were certainly of interest before I wrote about them. So there's something about writing about it that flattens them. You've used them up. I tell people I've never read one of my books, and that's true. They think I'm pulling their leg..."
Indeed. The work alleviates the pain. Great works of art force us all to see our own lives in a different light. Check back tomorrow after you've had you're turkey...
James Calemine
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