The existentialist motif of despair in McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”: new darkness and old hopes

The existentialist motif of despair in McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”: new darkness and old hopes

The article considers McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men from the perspective of the existentialist motif of despair in the characters’ network. Being philosophical in nature, the book raises existential questions of the value of human life and the purpose of human existence. The subject of the...

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Main Author:	Ірина Качур
Format:	Article
Language:	deu
Published:	Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University 2023-10-01
Series:	Синопсис: текст, контекст, медіа
Subjects:	cormac mccarthy american literature existentialism existentialist motifs despair
Online Access:	https://synopsis.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/synopsis/article/view/573

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