American writer won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 novel The Road
The American writer Cormac McCarthy, who died on 13 June aged 89, was a novelist “utterly wedded to the apocalyptic sublime”, said Rob Doyle in The Guardian. Over a career that produced 12 novels and two plays – and spawned some excellent film adaptations, notably the Coen brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” – he wrote obsessively about the “darkness, violence, horror and chaos he perceived at the core of all creation”. He did so, however, not with the “hysterical terror of H.P. Lovecraft, but with an ecstatic lyricism more like that of Muslim mystic-poets rapturously praising their holy-beloved”.
