"La route" de Cormac MacCarthy

The novel untitled The Road has been written by cormac McCarthy in 2006. Before studying the book, we have to learn more about his author. He was born in 1933 in Rhodes Island and he is now considered as one of the four major American novelists, along with Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo. He is even compares to the great William Faulkner! His last novels are a success as we can see with the Pulitzer Price he was awarded for The Road and the adaptation of No country for old man as a film by the Cohen Brothers.
The novel describes the journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and most life on earth. The two protagonists walk to the South and the Ocean. They fight against natural adversity to survive and find the "good" people in a world where everybody has changed and where human violence is revealed.