Recessional, : or, the time of the hammer / Tom McCarthy ; edited by Elisabeth Bronfen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22- author.

Bronfen, Elisabeth, author.

Series:

Time in literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zurich : Diaphanes, [2016]

Summary:

In this essay, based on a talk he gave in Zürich, award-winning British novelist Tom McCarthy unearths a pattern, a rationale that is working both in and against the canon of modern(ist) literature, of authors such as Thomas Pynchon, Maurice Blanchot, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce and William Faulkner. McCarthy tackles a specific obsession with time that haunts their works; a time that is marked by arrest, pause, suspension, interval, eternal moments, tool-downage, waiting. Recessional time, as it were. Time-out-of-time. this is precisely that time (or tense) of fiction that is central to Tom McCarthy's own writing. This essay is followed by a conversation with the author in which he discusses his own practice of writing.

Contents:

Recessional, or, the Time of the hammer

Obsessed with buffering: questions to Tom McCarthy

Something that is not nothing: Zürich seminar

Editorial note.

ISBN:

9783037345894

3037345896

OCLC:

921865990