Irish Examiner view: On 'The Road' again

Prophetic masterpiece

Kodi Smit-McPhee and Viggo Mortensen in 'The Road'. 

It was this week, in what seems like 15 long years ago, that Cormac McCarthy published his apocalyptic vision of modern life, The Road.

When this Pulitzer Prize masterpiece first appeared, the bleak presentiment it delivered, and its coda of a world destroyed by unknown and inexplicable catastrophe, seemed to be set many generations in the future. Now, not quite so far ahead.