Autore
Lomuscio, Vincenzo

Titolo
L’ambigua metafisica di Cormac McCarthy
Periodico
Intersezioni
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 203 - Pagina finale: 227

For several decades, scholars have engaged in sustained critical discourse concerning the metaphysical foundations underlying the fiction of Cormac McCarthy. While in the 1980s and 1990s he was frequently situated within the nihilistic tradition of contemporary literature, a significant shift in interpretation began to emerge in the mid-1990s. This new paradigm posits that beneath the veneer of apparent nihilism lies a coherent and intentionally constructed metaphysical vision. This hypothesis has since sparked an ongoing and multifaceted debate over the philosophical framework most suitable for articulating McCarthy’s worldview – whether it is best approached through a Gnostic-Manichaean or Platonic lens, whether it resonates more strongly with Schopenhauerian conceptions of the will or with the Heraclitean logos, or whether it gestures toward a dialectical theology or an existential form of Christianity. This article investigates the metaphysical dimensions of McCarthy’s oeuvre through an analysis of his final two novels, published in late 2022 as a diptych intended to function as a unified narrative project. These texts are imbued with a dense constellation of philosophical reflections that, on the one hand, appear to offer partial support for several competing interpretive models, and on the other, when examined in their totality, allow for a more integrative reading of McCarthy’s philosophical vision – one that may ultimately be construed as his culminating metaphysical testament.



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