“An enormous sadness touched with rue”: T he pathos of oneness in C ormac M c C arthy's Suttree

• Published in: Orbis litterarum Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 432 - 448
• Main Author: Hillier, Russell M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2024

In Cormac McCarthy's Suttree , the novel's titular protagonist Cornelius Suttree resists his father's self‐righteous conviction in the Nietzschean “pathos of distance” by living among Knoxville's helpless and destitute and testing the theory that “there is nothing occurring in th...