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So, we’ve all heard before that the narrator of Blood Meridian is a neo-biblical third-person omniscient narrator.
However, that only scratches the surface of McCarthy’s genius surrounding narration. McCarthy’s narrator wants to SEE and be SEEN more than any other narrator in history. The only narrators comparable to this exist in Moby Dick, Wise Blood, and The Scarlett Letter.
McCarthy’s post-modern manic blitz at the peak of his career pushed him into a new realm where an omniscient narrator could not only be unreliable but a racist, hyperbolic, idiomatic, simile-fueled narrator who sometimes fades from view.
In today’s course video, I will cover some of the main narrator theories, ranging from Judge Holden, Cormac himself, a man in the 1800s, and other more philosophical ideas!
