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A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian is the essential companion to the classic novel by Cormac McCarthy. Every reader, whether a student of literature or a fan of the book, will find a wealth of information in these pages. Shane Schimpf has researched every aspect of the novel from terminology to foreign language translations to historical references to literary underpinnings. The content is presented as a page-by-page analysis facilitating a simultaneous reading of both. The result is a more complete understanding of the novel and McCarthy's dark vision contained therein.
Unlike other written works about the novel, A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian includes:
1) Chapter-by-chapter, page-by-page annotations to the novel.
2) A subject index which includes the initial appearance of major characters, references to historical figures, geographical locales, indigenous flora and fauna, biblical references and more.
3) A thematic overview of Blood Meridian exploring the relationship between the novel's two major figures, The Kid and The Judge.
The first page of the annotations, reproduced below, offers an example of what the reader can expect to find in A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian:
CHAPTER ONE - PAGE 3
Nacogdoches: The oldest town in Texas, founded in 1779. Named after the Caddo Indians who originally lived in this area, Nacogdoches played a prominent role in Texas history; in particular, the town was the site of three failed attempts to establish the Republic of Texas. As a result, nine flags have flown over the city: Spanish, French, Mexican, The Magee-Guiterrez Repubic, The Long Republic, The Fredonia Republic, The Lone Star, The Confederate, and The United States. See cets.sfasu.edu/NacHis. html. Last visited on 04/08/2006.
An affray: A noisy quarrel or brawl.
See the child: Perhaps an allusion to Alexander Pope's Essay on Man: Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law/Please with rattle, tickled with straw (274-5).
- Sales Rank: #1284434 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-13
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 361 pages
About the Author
Shane Schimpf lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended Oberlin College, majoring in Philosophy and History, and then the University of Michigan where he was a doctoral student in Philosophy. His studies focused on Philosophy of Mind with special emphasis on theories of consciousness. After moving to Seattle in 1994, he pursued a career in information technology. When not working, Mr. Schimpf enjoys reading, writing, poker, basketball and exercising. This is his first published work.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great compliment to Blood Meridian
By Bettye
A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian gives insight to Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.I first read the book, then I purchased this guide and reread Blood Meridian with this Reader's Guide page by page. This guide states the pages to which it refers to in Blood Meridian. This Reader's Guide matches pages perfectly with the 2001 edition of Blood Meridian from the Modern Library(printed on acid-free paper). I live in southeast Arizona after living 25 years in northern California and thought I recognized locations/towns etc..in the book. After I used this Reader's Guide I realized that I was incorrect about some of the locations, towns and villages in Blood Meridian. One location I thought was in California is just 5 miles from my home in Arizona. Shane Schimpi, the author,of A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian gives history of the locations and actual people in the story. The details Schimpi lends on factual data and some made-up people gives vitality to this great story. The descriptions and factual information about the people, ranches, rivers, towns, dress, battles, equipment (including weapons),individual deserts (and many more items which I forget right now) make the Great Book "Blood Meridian" both real and alive. It is very easy for me to imagine the main cowboy, just a teenage boy, as he acts and reacts in multiple violent settings. I thoroughly enjoyed Blood Meridian without a reader's guide but with the guide by Mr Schumipf I have a greater understanding of the time and the people. They are no longer figments or characters in a story, but living people, even those who are total fabrications of Cormac McCarthy. This guide coordinates the history preceding the story, history that most likely influenced some men to such terrible violence, violence which is forever possible. The interpretation of the Spanish dialog in the book is justification enough to purchase this book. The Guide arrived before expected date and in perfect condition.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
If only all McCarthy novels had a companion guide like this!
By Adrienne Strickland
For anyone looking to improve their understanding of Blood Meridian, this guide is a must-have. It covers the novel in a clear, beginning-to-end format allowing you to refer back to the guide with ease any time that you come across one of the myriad unfamiliar words, phrases, historical persons and places found in McCarthy's rich literary landscape. There is an amazing amount of information packed in the pages, but because of its user-friendly format it would be useful tool for any reader of the book; someone using the guide as a Blood Meridian 'dictionary' of sorts will be served just as well as the reader looking for a comprehensive source of references, maps, translations and the like. The analysis of McCarthy's motivations is also interesting and well-argued; while one is hard pressed to ever really know what an author had in mind when writing a novel, the ideas presented here seem right on the mark.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
A handy page-by-page reference.
By Richard L. Pangburn
The bulk of this book, the last 300 pages of it, presents a valuable addition to the crit-lit on Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, BLOOD MERIDIAN. The definitions and historical notes are arranged in a reader-friendly page-by-page format, with translations of the foreign terms and astute explanations, elaborations, and speculations on the many arcane references.
Both scholars and casual readers will find this work rewarding, even if they already have copies of John Sepich's masterful NOTES ON BLOOD MERIDIAN, which preceded this work and is now also available in a new expanded edition.
I would now like to review the first fifty pages, Shane Schimpf's Nietzschean interpretation of the novel. While this interpretation is as valid as any, and might seem handy for college students, readers should be aware that it is not the only interpretation. Just one of many. I wish that Mr. Schimpf had published this separately, or had provided more notations of the alternative published arguments, or else had simply let readers choose their own interpretations. A guide should simply be a guide.
Mr. Schimpf states his opinion that the words of McCarthy's fictional Judge Holden express Cormac McCarthy's own philosophy. Again, readers new to McCarthy crit-lit should be aware that this is just one of many takes on the novel, among them the Christian, Gnostic, Marxist, and Buddhist interpretations. To me, the novel does not belong to the Judge, but to the kid, the conscript everyman.
Again, this is the second and improved edition of a valuable and handy resource, in which the author seeks out the primary historical sources for a closer look. Scholarship is never definitive and always ongoing, and readers of this work are encouraged to also dip into the great wealth of alternate Cormac McCarthy crit-lit now available.
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