Cormac McCarthy: “Me, my son and the road”

Birth of a masterpiece. The apocalypse is a simple story. “I don’t know what God is, but I pray.” “I always knew I didn’t want to work.” Oprah Winfrey’s almost impossible interview with the American writer: it was 2007

Tuesday, January 5, 2007 Oprah Winfrey, presenter of one of the most famous and coveted talk shows in America, was finally able, after numerous unsuccessful attempts, to interview Cormac McCarthy. Il Foglio, two days later, published the almost complete transcript of the dialogue between the two.