McCarthy's prose style in Blood Meridian reads like Faulkner with beautiful flowing clarity and transparency not often broken up with punctuation, creating very long and powerful sentences with a gravity and biblical weightiness.

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Michael Sugrue

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the style is truly beautiful you can't take anything from that uh in many ways mccarthy seem reads like faulkner with that beautiful flowing uh clarity and transparency uh not often broken up with punctuation so there's a very long and very powerful sentences also a certain gravity to his prose

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Blood Meridian: Bibliotheca WebinarMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:25:46 PM

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