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S'està carregant… No és país per a vells (2005)de Cormac McCarthy
  
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 All that keeps No Country for Old Men from being a deftly executed but meretricious thriller is the presence, increasingly confused and ineffectual as the novel proceeds, of the sheriff of Comanche County, one of the "old men" alluded to in the title.  "No Country for Old Men" is an unholy mess of a novel, which one could speculate will be a bitter disappointment to many of those eager fans. It is an unwieldy klutz that pretends to be beach reading while dressed in the garments of serious literature (not that those are necessarily mutually exclusive concepts). It is a thriller that is barely thrilling and a tepid effort to reclaim some of the focus and possibly the audience of McCarthy's most reader-friendly novel, "All the Pretty Horses." Worst of all, it reads like a story you wished Elmore Leonard had written -- or rather, in this case, rewritten.  Mr. McCarthy turns the elaborate cat-and-mouse game played by Moss and Chigurh and Bell into harrowing, propulsive drama, cutting from one frightening, violent set piece to another with cinematic economy and precision. In fact, ''No Country for Old Men'' would easily translate to the big screen so long as Bell's tedious, long-winded monologues were left on the cutting room floor -- a move that would also have made this a considerably more persuasive novel.  In the literary world the appearance of a new Cormac McCarthy novel is a cause for celebration. It has been seven years since his Cities of the Plain, and McCarthy has made the wait worthwhile. With a title that makes a statement about Texas itself, McCarthy offers up a vision of awful power and waning glory, like a tale told by a hermit emerging from the desert, a biblical Western from a cactus-pricked Ancient Mariner.  Cormac McCarthy's ''No Country for Old Men'' is as bracing a variation on these noir orthodoxies as any fan of the genre could expect, although his admirers may not be sure at first about quite how to take the book, which doesn't bend its genre or transcend it but determinedly straightens it back out. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsDebolsillo (702) Einaudi Tascabili. Letteratura (Super ET) İthaki Modern (1) Té l'adaptacióTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope for survival. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Containing one of the greatest villains in all literature, Anton Chigurh murders without hesitation or even motivation and evades punishment and judgment.
The reader ends up wondering alongside Sherif Bell, where God is in all the problems of the world.
“Do you think God knows what's happenin?”
“I expect he does.”
“You think he can stop it?”
“No. I don’t.”
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ offers a different perspective. What seemed to make no sense, and felt like an absolute tragedy, was used by God for good. The same goes in all the trials of life.
“And we know that in *all* things God works for the good of those who love him.”
(Romans 8:28) (