{"product_id":"bloody-and-barbarous-god","title":"Bloody and Barbarous God","description":"\u003cem\u003eA Bloody and Barbarous God\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAll the Pretty Horses\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCities of the Plain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Road\u003c\/em\u003e. Mundik argues that McCarthy continually strives to evolve an explanatory theodicy throughout his work and that his novels are, to a lesser or greater extent, concerned with the meaning of human existence in relation to the presence of evil and the nature of the divine.","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57559245488472,"sku":"9780826363343","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bloody-and-barbarous-god","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}