Mit utopijnej Ameryki w Drodze Cormaca McCarthy’ego: postkapitalistyczna, postkonsumpcyjna, postapokaliptyczna wizja świata

Abstract

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road vividly depicts the end of human civilization and the extinction of life on the planet. The whole Earth is covered in ashes and soot, as cities and forests have been consumed by the unknown catastrophe on the globe. McCarthy offers a visually stunning but disturbing picture of how existence could look at the end of the road to nowhere for two pilgrims taking a purposeless journey through the country which once dominated the world. In The Road Cormac McCarthy deconstructs the myth of exceptional America. The novelist visualizes the world in the post-capitalist, post-consumer and postapocalyptic era, without hope for redemption, though.