Tom McCarthy’s Fiction: A Reading Diary
In the following lines I provide a reading diary of all of McCarthy’s four novels, giving my impressions as the reading goes and offering a brief retrospective assessment at the end of the piece. By paying attention to the singularity of the text and the idioculture that emerges from it, I tentative...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2016-04-01
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Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3033 |
Summary: | In the following lines I provide a reading diary of all of McCarthy’s four novels, giving my impressions as the reading goes and offering a brief retrospective assessment at the end of the piece. By paying attention to the singularity of the text and the idioculture that emerges from it, I tentatively offer a progressive reading of each single novel, each reading striving to build up connections with the previous novels. This leads me to address a series of issues centring on the prevalence of fakes, matter, connection, and also on the alternative narrative means to raise the reader’s interest as he/she is confronted with the flatness of characters and the programmatic impossibility to sympathise with them. |
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ISSN: | 1168-4917 2271-5444 |