Abstrakt
This paper focuses on Cormac McCarthy's unpublished screenplay "Whales and Men" and its influence on author's later published works, especially the Border Trilogy. McCarthy worked on "Whales and Men" in 1980s, in a period of transition from the South to the West.
While having rather straightforward environmental agenda, "Whales and Men" shows many similarities to the attitude to nature and animals in the Border Trilogy. In this aspect, "Whales and Men" and other archival material represents an important source of information on the development of McCarthy's environmental and ethical concerns that are crucial topics both in his earlier and later works.
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how reoccurring images and topics directly connect "Whales and Men" to the Border Trilogy and to analyse "Whales and Men" as a valuable research material for understanding McCarthy's approach to nature.