Maria del Pilar Blanco
Contributor
María del Pilar Blanco is completing her doctorate on American literature and film in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is also a contributor to 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, where earlier versions of her contributions to Britannica first appeared.
Primary Contributions (1)
Blood Meridian, western novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1985. Bleak, violent, and uncompromisingly unsentimental, it is widely considered to be McCarthy’s masterpiece. “See the child,” orders the narrator at the beginning of Blood Meridian. Following this initial focus on a character that is…
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Publications (1)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2001)
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual...
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