Remainder: Tom McCarthy - Brossura

McCarthy, Tom

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ISBN 10: 1846883806 ISBN 13: 9781846883804

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"A refreshingly idiosyncratic, enjoyably intelligent read." The Guardian "Remainder is an intelligent and absurd satire on consumer culture." The Times "McCarthy's prose is precise and unpretentious. His anti-hero is a sympathetic Everyman, and it is difficult to resist the dominion of his obsession... its minatory brilliance calls for classic status." The Independent "...strangely gripping... Remainder should be read (and, of course, reread) for its intelli- gence and humour." TLS "The storyline mesmerizes in its imaginative brilliance... the novel explores complex philosophical ideas about "being" in a simple and direct way." --The Sunday Telegraph

"Enthralling, dotted with dark humour and undoubted originality... it really sticks around in the mind, nagging at one afterwards, and the most complimentary thing that can be said about this novel of repeating scenes is that it really does deserve to be read a second time." --The Irish Times

"This isn't how we expect a novel to be, but it's why it's a very good novel indeed. It trains you out of a certain way of thinking." --London Review of Books

L'autore:

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 novel Men in Space was published by Alma in 2007 and his latest novel C was shortlisted for the Man Booker 2010.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846883806
• ISBN 13: 9781846883804
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288