Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish

Zusatztext [Tom McCarthy] is one of the few writers who not only illuminates his subject matter but also takes our understanding down new paths. There is an enormously wide frame of reference here! from Aristotle to MC Hammer! and it never feels forced. Nicholas Lezard! The Guardian "Perhaps only in a Tom McCarthy essay would profound philosophical insight be pulled from both William Faulkner and M.C. Hammer. Such is the brainy! playful and always subversive power of McCarthy's first collection! Typewriters! Bombs! Jellyfish .[McCarthy is] an adept stylist! in the vein of Nabokov! and never fails to deliver dazzling twists of language and meaning. Each essay impresses with the author's preternatural intelligence. Typewriters! Bombs! Jellyfish will entice lovers of art and literature." Scott Neuffer! Shelf Awareness "Reading Typewriters! Bombs! Jellyfish is like receiving a map of all the space that art! literature! and culture have carved out for each other. . . . This is the kind of book that deepens your appreciation of the subjects you've previously encountered! and sends you to seek out the ones you haven't." Gabe Habash! Publishers Weekly ! starred review "Stimulating! intellectually exciting! and highly imaginative." Kirkus Reviews ! starred review McCarthy's fiction and nonfiction aim to skewer an ideology of authenticity that is fed and watered by a certain humanist conception of literature. Simon Critchley McCarthy's crisp! clean prose is stimulating! his concepts original and his visual imagery powerful. Layla Sanai! The Independent Informationen zum Autor Tom McCarthy Klappentext Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as Ulysses (how do you write after it?), Tristram Shandy, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi's darkly beautiful Cain's Book. The longer "Recessional" examines the place of time in writing-how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time-while the startling "Nothing Will Have Taken Place" moves from Mallarmé and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence-among them the artist Ed Ruscha's Royal Road Test, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination-and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world? Zusammenfassung Essays on literature! pop culture! and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy! one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters! Bombs! Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects! from the weather considered as a form of media! to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch! to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess! to the still-radical implic...

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Tom McCarthy

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Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy

Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as Ulysses (how do you write after it?), Tristram Shandy, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi's darkly beautiful Cain's Book. The longer "Recessional" examines the place of time in writing-how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time-while the startling "Nothing Will Have Taken Place" moves from Mallarmé and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence-among them the artist Ed Ruscha's Royal Road Test, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination-and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world?

Inhalt
Provisional Table of Contents
 
 
1          18 Semiconnected Thoughts on Michel de Certeau, On Kawara, Fly Fishing, and Various Other Things
 
13       From Feedback to Reflux: Kafka’s Cybernetics of Revolt
 
23       Get Real; or, What Jellyfish Have to Tell Us About Literature
 
35       The Prosthetic Imagination of David Lynch
 
43       On Dodgem Jockeys: A Suggested Alternative Career for Writers
 
45       Meteomedia, or Why London’s Weather is in the Middle of Everything
 
56       Nothing Will Have Taken Place Except The Place
 
71       Recessional – or, the Time of the Hammer
 
87       Richter Article
 
94       Stabbing the Olive
 
106     The Geometry of the Pressant
 
117     On Balls and Planes: An Introduction to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Stern
 
135     Kool Thing, or Why I Want to Fuck Patty Hearst
 
139     Why Ulysses Matters

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