![]() ![]() The event, whatever McCarthy intended, is immaterial. Indeed, perhaps these critics have a point readers of The Road, and the viewers of the faithful film adaptation-which lifts much of the dialogue directly from the novel-do not see the catastrophe but only its aftermath. Of course, if a literary critic adheres to Roland Barthes’s thesis of the ‘death of the author’-which argued that an author’s biographical details and intention in writing a text are unimportant and that a reader’s interpretation is paramount-then McCarthy’s words on the subject can be brushed aside. McCarthy then later stated that the disaster which caused the end of human society in The Road was not a nuclear holocaust but an environmental disaster: A meteor strike. But it could be anything-volcanic activity or it could be nuclear war. ome said it looked like a meteor to them. An elusive figure who rarely gives interviews, McCarthy once stated that he deliberately left the cause of the disaster ambiguous:Ī lot of people ask me. Yet more critics have such as Carl James Grindley have interpreted the novel as a retelling of the Book of Revelation and conclude that the extinction event must have had a supernatural cause. The nuclear war interpretation is not limited to fans on the internet but was also mooted by some literary critics. ![]()
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