Stella Maris (novel) explained

Stella Maris
Author:Cormac McCarthy
Audio Read By:Julia Whelan
Edoardo Ballerini
Country:United States
Language:English
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Pub Date:December 6, 2022
Media Type:Print
Pages:208
Isbn:978-0-307-26900-3
Preceded By:The Passenger

Stella Maris is a 2022 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy that was published on December 6, 2022.[1] It is a companion novel to The Passenger. It was the final novel published before his death on June 13, 2023.[2] It consists primarily of dialogue with little narration, exploring the nature of the protagonist's delusions and topics such as quantum mechanics and phenomenology.

Plot

The novel follows Alicia Western, a math prodigy conflicted by her father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb.[3] The entire novel is set in 1972 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the titular Stella Maris, "a non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients," as stated on page 3 (the only page that is not written in dialogue). The novel consists of a "series of conversations between Alicia and her psychiatrist, Dr. Cohen, written like a play but with no exposition, stage directions, or dialogue tags. The subjects include mathematics, quantum mechanics, music theory, and obscure philosophy."[4]

Development

In a 2009 interview, McCarthy said that he had been "planning on writing about a woman for 50 years".[3]

Publication

Announced in March 2022,[3] Stella Maris was published by Knopf on December 6, 2022,[1] one month after its companion novel The Passenger.[3]

Translations

As of mid-2024, the book has been translated into:

Notes and References

  1. News: Grobar. Matt. March 8, 2022. New Cormac McCarthy Novels 'The Passenger' And 'Stella Maris' To Be Published By Knopf This Fall. Deadline. August 3, 2022. August 3, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220803182225/https://deadline.com/2022/03/cormac-mccarthy-novels-the-passenger-stella-maris-to-be-published-this-fall-1234973871/. live.
  2. News: 13 June 2023. Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road, dies aged 89. BBC News. 13 June 2023.
  3. Cain. Sian. March 8, 2022. Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road. The Guardian. August 3, 2022. August 3, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220803182225/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/09/cormac-mccarthy-two-new-novels-coming-in-2022-16-years-after-the-road. live.
  4. Web site: Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy .
  5. Book: Stella Maris . Cormac McCarthy . 2024 . cs . Argo . 200 . The Passenger, 2 . 978-80-257-4369-0.
  6. Book: Cormac McCarthy . Stella Maris . 2023 . pl . . 268 . 978-83-08-08133-4.
  7. Book: Cormac McCarthy . Sutera Marisu . ja:ステラ・マリス . 2024 . ja . . 272 . 978-4-15-210310-9.
  8. Book: Cormac McCarthy . Stella Maris . 2022 . de . . 240 . 978-3-498-00336-4.
  9. Book: Passageraren; Stella Maris . Cormac McCarthy . 2023 . sv . . 678 . 978-91-0-019924-1.
  10. Book: Stella Maris . Cormac McCarthy . 2023 . ko . . 978-89-546-9662-3.
  11. Book: Cormac McCarthy . El pasajero / Stella Maris . 2022 . es . Literatura Random House . 624 . 978-84-397-4070-4.
  12. Book: Stella Maris . Cormac McCarthy . 2022 . no . . . 220 . 978-82-05-57704-6.
  13. Book: Cormac McCarthy . Stella Maris . 2022 . nl . . 208 . 978-90-295-4753-6.
  14. Book: Stella Maris . Cormac McCarthy . 2023 . it . Einaudi . 978-88-06-25958-7.
  15. Book: Stella Maris . Cormac McCarthy . 2023 . fr . Éditions de l'olivier . 250 . 978-2-8236-1971-3.
  16. Book: Stella Maris (Em Portugues do Brasil) . Cormac McCarthy . 2022 . pt . Alfaguara . 184 . 978-85-5652-162-0.

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