Outer Dark | Literary Precedents
McCarthy is often linked with the "Southern Gothic" tradition, although that term is itself an ambiguous one. Certainly he shares with many Southern writers a predisposition to grotesques and acts of violence. He also displays a kind of wild folk humor, a love of dialect, and a richness of vocabulary. The two writers McCarthy most clearly brings to mind are William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Like Faulkner, he experiments in language and narrative form, and creates a very personal world with each novel. He studies the outsider and admires those who endure and who probe beneath the...
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