Blood Meridian

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Blood Meridian is a brutal and philosophically dense Western novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a teenage drifter known as "the Kid" amid a scalp-hunting gang in the mid-19th-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Western novel
historical novel
novel
philosophical fiction
author Cormac McCarthy
basedOn historical events
centralTheme evil
fate
free will
manifest destiny
the nature of war
violence
containsViolenceLevel extreme
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly acclaimed
genre Western
historical fiction
literary fiction
philosophical novel
hasAdaptationStatus long-discussed film adaptation
inspiredBy Glanton gang
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacter the Kid
narrativeFocus moral ambiguity
narrativeStyle biblical prose
third-person
notableCharacter John Joel Glanton
Judge Holden
originalLanguage English
originalTitle Blood Meridian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
pageCountApproximate 350
philosophicalInfluence Gnostic thought
existentialism
plotElement mercenary violence
scalp-hunting expeditions
protagonistDescription teenage drifter
publicationYear 1985
publisher Random House
recognizedAs modern American classic
one of Cormac McCarthy's major works
settingCountry Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
settingPeriod mid-19th century
settingRegion U.S.–Mexico borderlands region
surface form: U.S.-Mexico borderlands
tone bleak
brutal

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Cormac McCarthy notableWork Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian originalTitle Blood Meridian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
Suttree precedesInAuthorCareer Blood Meridian
Stella Maris relatedWork Blood Meridian
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. notableWork Blood Meridian
subject surface form: Cormac McCarthy