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Remainder de Tom McCarthy

Remainder

Autor Tom McCarthy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2015
Traumatized by an accident which 'involved something falling from the sky' and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder's hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past: a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them... But when this fails to quench his thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events, as his repetition addiction spirals out of control.A darkly comic meditation on memory, identity and history, Remainder is a parable for modern times.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846883804
ISBN-10: 1846883806
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books

Notă biografică

Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Remainder, was a worlwide success and has been translated into many languages. His non-fiction book Tintin and the Secret of Literature is published by Granta.

Recenzii

Remainder is an intelligent and absurd satire on consumer culture.
Its minatory brilliance calls for classic status
There are echoes of Beckett, Flann O'Brien too, perhaps, but in the end McCarthy has a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit that is all his own. It will be a long time before you come across a stranger book, or a truer one.
Remainder, with seamless prose, endlessly probes the surface of the "event", its infinite elements, angles, perspectives, how it comes about, how it can be brought about again, then lived and relived in Ballardian orbits and Beckettian vibrations... It will remain with you long after you have felt compelled to re-read it.
Strangely gripping... Remainder should be read (and, of course, reread) for its intelligence and humour.
This isn't how we expect a novel to be, but it's why it's a very good novel indeed.
McCarthy delivers his wacky tale, an enquiry into authenticity and experience, with persuasive logic and a nice line in absurdist humour.
...Enthralling, dotted with dark humour and undoubted originality
The storyline mesmerises in its imaginative brilliance
This is a refreshingly idiosyncratic, enjoyably intelligent read by a writer with ideas and talent

Descriere

A prize-winning modern classic by the Man Booker shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. It contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark.