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Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist. His
debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ...
, ''
Remainder
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'', was published in 2005 by
Metronome
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. McCarthy has twice been nominated for the
Man Booker, and was awarded the inaugural
Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by
Yale University
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in 2013.
He won a
Believer Book Award Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020) ...
for ''Remainder'' in 2008.
He has also written a critical study of
Tintin
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called ''Tintin and the Secret of Literature,'' and published an essay collection, ''Typewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish'', in 2017''.'' His most recent novel, ''The Making of Incarnation'', was published in 2021.
Life and work
Tom McCarthy was born in London in 1969 and lives in Berlin.
He grew up in
Greenwich
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Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
, and was educated at
Dulwich College
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(from 1978 to 1986) and later
New College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He lived in Prague, where he worked as a nude model and in an American bar; Berlin, where he worked in an Irish pub; and Amsterdam, where he worked in a restaurant kitchen and reviewed books for the local edition of ''
Time Out'' magazine
in the early 90s, before moving back to London. McCarthy's time in Prague forms the basis for his novel ''Men in Space''.
["Tom McCarthy: How he became one of the brightest new prospects in British fiction" ''The Independent" 21 September 2007](_blank)
/ref> McCarthy has also worked as a television script editor, and co-edited ''Mute
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'' magazine. Prior to his success he lived and wrote in a tower block flat on the Golden Lane Estate
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beside the Barbican.
Writing and publishing
McCarthy's debut novel ''Remainder'' was written in 2001 and rejected by mainstream UK publishers. It was published in November 2005 by the small Paris-based art publisher Metronome Press
''Metronome'' is an artists' and writers' organ founded in 1996 by Clémentine Deliss.
It acts as alternative art publishing, because it has not a fixed editorial team and a fixed location. Its activity started with the publication of a sort of a ...
and distributed through gallery and museum shops, but not in chain bookstores and then received widespread critical attention in the literary and mainstream press, with one of its first reviews, in December 2005, on ReadySteadyBook who called it "one of the most important novels written in a long, long time." The ''London Review of Books'' called it "a very good novel indeed" and ''The Independent'' claimed that "its minatory brilliance calls for classic status". The novel was re-published by the independent publisher Alma Books
Alma Books is a publishing house based in Richmond, London, founded in 2005 by Alessandro Gallenzi and Elisabetta Minervini, the founders of Hesperus Press. It publishes mainly fiction, both by authors from the English-speaking world and in tran ...
in the UK (2006), and the Bertelsmann subsidiary Vintage
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in the US (2007), where it ranked as an Amazon top one-hundred seller and entered the ''Los Angeles Times'' Bestseller list. On its American publication the ''New York Times'' dedicated the front cover of its book section to the novel, calling the book "a work of novelistic philosophy, as disturbing as it is funny". In 2008 ''Remainder'' won the fourth annual Believer Book Award Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020) ...
. Zadie Smith wrote in the ''New York Review of Books'' that it was "one of the great English novels of the last ten years", suggesting it showed a future path that the novel "might, with difficulty, follow". It has since been translated into fourteen languages, and a film adaptation directed by Omer Fast
Omer Fast (born in Jerusalem 1972) is an Israeli video artist.
Early life and education
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was released in 2015. Several big publishing houses who had rejected the novel returned to him with enthusiastic offers, which McCarthy rejected, commenting that "it's the same book as it was two years ago."
A work of literary criticism by McCarthy, ''Tintin and the Secret of Literature'', was released by Granta Books in June 2006, with French (Hachette Littératures), Spanish (El Tercer Nombre), Italian (Piemme) and American editions (Counterpoint) following in 2007-8. The book attempted a reading of Hergé's ''The Adventures of Tintin
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'' books through the prism of structuralist and post-structuralist literary theory. It divided reviewers, with some critics disliking the book's references to Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...
. Killian Fox in ''The Observer'' praised "its author's obsessive approach, his breathtaking grasp of the oeuvre and the sheer exuberance with which he tackles his subject". However, in ''The Guardian'', Kathryn Hughes criticised its methodology and style: "McCarthy's text has that pleased-with-itself smirk that was so characteristic of the early 90s, when journalists started purloining critical theory from the academy, liking the way it made them feel clever". McCarthy commented: "Granta asked if I wanted to write a book on Freud or Derrida or someone like that, and I said: 'Well, if I write about Hergé I can write about Freud, Derrida and whole bunch of other people, plus it'll be much more fun.' It was received well for the most part. There were one or two hilarious English reviews in which you could virtually see the reviewer's veins bursting with little-England rage at the book's continental bent."
In 2007, Alma Books published his second novel, ''Men in Space'', much of which was written prior to ''Remainder''. It has since been published in many languages including Greek and French. McCarthy has also published numerous stories, essays and articles on literature, philosophy and art in publications including ''The Observer'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The London Review of Books'', ''Artforum'' and ''The New York Times'', as well as in anthologies such as ''London from Punk to Blair'' (Reaktion Books), ''Theology and the Political'' (Duke University Press), ''The Milgram Reenactment'' (Jan van Eyck Press) and ''The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth'' (Serpent's Tail).
In 2004 he published an essay on excrement in the work of James Joyce in the online literary journal ''Hypermedia Joyce Studies''. In 2008 an essay by McCarthy on Alain Robbe-Grillet, an author he has often expressed an admiration for, was published in the new Oneworld Classics English edition of Robbe-Grillet's ''Jealousy''. In February 2015 McCarthy published a new novel titled ''Satin Island'' which was shortlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize; when he began it, he said, "It's going to have a leitmotif of a parachutist falling to earth, having realised that his parachute has been sabotaged: his relation to the landscape, death, technology."
Art
Since 1999 McCarthy has been 'general secretary' of a 'semi-fictitious organisation' he co-founded with his friend the philosopher Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960) is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA.
Challenging the ancient tradition that philosophy begins in wonder, Critchle ...
called the International Necronautical Society (INS) "devoted to mind-bending projects that would do for death what the Surrealists had done for sex". Having failed to interest publishers in his novels in 2001-2, he made art projects under the INS name. McCarthy handed out his International Necronautical Society or INS manifestos at a mock art fair organised by artist Gavin Turk
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. The INS operates through publications, live events, media interventions and more conventional art exhibitions.
In a 2007 interview with the website Bookninja, McCarthy explained the circumstances that led to the formation of the INS: "I was quite well integrated into the art world in London by the late nineties, and on top of that I'd for some time had an interest in the modes and procedures of early twentieth century avant-gardes like the Futurists and Surrealists: their semi-corporate, semi-political structures of committees and subcommittees, their use of manifestos, proclamations and denunciations".
Despite his initial claim that the INS was 'not an art project', McCarthy has accepted invitations to show work in his capacity as INS general secretary at art institutions around the world, including Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Moderna Museet Stockholm, the Drawing Center New York, Kunstwerke Berlin, Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, and Substation Gallery Singapore.
The INS has been described by ''Art Monthly'' as "a group of wayward literati and sweet-talking parodists", and as "obscure" by ''The Australian
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''. In 2003 the INS hacked the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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website and inserted propaganda into its source code. The following year, they set up a broadcasting unit at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts
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from which more than forty assistants generated non-stop "poem-codes" which were transmitted over FM radio in London and by internet to collaborating radio stations around the world. In 2008 a more mechanical version of this piece was displayed at Stockholm's Moderna Museet, in which an aeroplane Black Box transmitter sent out a stream of similar messages.
In 2007, after McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley had delivered the 'INS Declaration on Inauthenticity' at New York's Drawing Center, the critic Peter Schwenger alleged in ''
Triple Canopy
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'' that the two men who appeared in the gallery were not in fact Critchley and McCarthy.
Taking his claim as an inspiration, McCarthy and Critchley did indeed replace themselves with actors when delivering the Declaration one year later at Tate Britain. When invited to deliver the Declaration a third time at the 2009 Athens Biennial, they announced that the Declaration would henceforth be outsourced to any institution who wanted it, and commissioned a Greek translation, which was subsequently delivered by Greek actors in Athens.
McCarthy has made independent artworks. In 2005 he exhibited, at The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, the multimedia installation piece 'Greenwich Degree Zero', produced in collaboration with artist
Rod Dickinson, which (in a tribute to
Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel ''The Secret Agent''), depicted the Greenwich Observatory burning the ground. The piece was subsequently purchased by the Arts Council England's permanent collection.
In 2006 he collaborated with French artist Loris Gréaud to produce an 'Ontic Helpline' for a fictitious 'Thanatalogical Corporation' – a black telephone that transfers callers through an endless loop of pre-recorded messages. The telephone was displayed in the FiAC collection in Paris, and purchased by gallerists/collectors Solene Guillier and Nathalie Boutin. McCarthy wrote the script for Johan Grimonprez's feature film ''Double Take'' (2009). The script consists of a short story, loosely based on Borges's '25 August 1983', in which Hitchcock meets his double on the set of one of his films. The film won the Black Pearl award (MEIFF, Abu Dhabi) in 2009. McCarthy has also tutored and lectured at various institutions including the
Architectural Association
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,
Central Saint Martins School of Art
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, the
Royal College of Art
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,
London Consortium and
Columbia University
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.
Novels
''Remainder''
''
Remainder
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'' tells the story of an unnamed hero traumatised by an accident which "involved something falling from the sky". Eight and a half million pounds richer due to a compensation settlement but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, ''Remainders protagonist spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past, such as a large building with piano music in the distance, the familiar smells and sounds of liver frying and spluttering, or lethargic cats lounging on roofs until they tumble off them. These re-enactments are driven by a need to inhabit the world "authentically" rather than in the "second-hand" manner that his traumatic situation has bequeathed him. When the recreation of mundane events fails to quench this thirst for authenticity, he starts re-enacting more and more violent events.
''Men in Space''
Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of Communism, ''Men in Space'' follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, football referees, deaf police agents, assassins and stranded astronauts as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and beyond. The icon's melancholy orbit is reflected in the various characters' ellipses and near-misses as they career vertiginously through all kinds of space, be it physical, political, emotional or metaphysical. McCarthy uses these settings to present a vision of humanity adrift in history, and a world in a state of disintegration.
''C''
Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, ''C'' is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he's recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain.
McCarthy's novel ''C'' was released in late 2010, in the US with Knopf, in the UK with Jonathan Cape. It divided critics. McCarthy has described this novel in previous interviews as dealing with technology and mourning. The book was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. In response
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described him as a "young and British
Thomas Pynchon
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." It was also shortlisted for the
.
It has been described as "unquestionably brilliant, usefully denting the model of the psychological realism that is the dominant mode of our conservative times by its unique, disorientating glance at modernism" by Neel Mukherjee of ''
The Times
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'' and "an avant-garde epic, the first I can think of since Joyce's ''Ulysses''" by Jonathan Dee of ''
Harper's Magazine''.
Leo Robson in the ''
New Statesman
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'' review describes the book as "full of familiar delights and familiar tedium", with "Protracted descriptions of a pageant and a seance
hat
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drain the reader's will to live." It continues "After a certain point, most sentences go something like this (not a parody): "Everything seems connected: disparate locations twitch and burst into activity like limbs reacting to impulses sent from elsewhere in the body, booms and jibs obeying levers at the far end of a complex set of ropes and cogs and relays.""
''Satin Island''
''
Satin Island'' concerns a protagonist, U., who works for the Company. U. is employed as an anthropologist. The novel was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the
Man Booker Prize and the
Goldsmiths Prize
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.
''The Making of Incarnation''
''
The Making of Incarnation'' involves a search for a fictional missing item—Box 808—from the archive of Lillian Gilbreth. The novel was published in 2021.
Literary themes
In a 2007 interview McCarthy claimed one of the main themes pervading his work to be that of repetition and duplication.
The repetition in ''Remainder'' takes the form of re-enactments of events carried out by the wealthy post-traumatic hero in a process that some critics (such as Joyce Carol Oates in the ''
New York Review of Books
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* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator ...
'') have seen as allegory for art itself. In ''Men in Space'' it takes the form of duplication of an artwork, and a set of patterns repeating over several centuries. In McCarthy's art projects it has taken the form of repeating sets of messages over radio in a homage to
Jean Cocteau
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's ''Orphée''.
Boyd Tonkin, in his ''Independent'' profile on McCarthy, picks up on the notion that literature itself is a series of repetitions and duplications.
At least one critic has connected McCarthy's work to "failed transcendence", and McCarthy has used the term failed transcendence in interviews to describe the collapse of the idealist project in philosophy, art and literature. Failed transcendence forms a central tenet of 'The New York Declaration on Inauthenticity', an INS talk delivered in the style of a propaganda statement by McCarthy and the philosopher Simon Critchley in 2007 in the
Drawing Center, New York.
In a discussion with the artist Margarita Gluzberg, held in 2001 in London's
Austrian Cultural Forum An Austrian Cultural Forum is an agency of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, whose task consists of the cultural and scientific dialogue with artists and scientists of each particular host country.
A Cultural forum focuse ...
, McCarthy cites
Georges Bataille's description of matter as "that non-logical difference that represents in relation to the economy of the universe what crime represents in relation to the economy of the law".
In a lecture delivered to the International James Joyce Symposium in 2004 in Dublin, McCarthy again cites Bataille, drawing on his notion of "base materialism" to throw light on the scatological sensibility displayed in Joyce's novels. The detective in ''Men in Space'' is a radio surveillance operative who starts out boasting he "can always get a strong signal", but ends up losing the signal and then becoming deaf, cut off from all communication. In one interview, McCarthy discussed this character's similarity to
Francis Ford Coppola's Harry Caul in ''
The Conversation
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''.
McCarthy created an art project around
Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the su ...
's ''
Orphée'', at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2004, which consisted of forty assistants cutting up text, projecting it onto the walls and then re-assembling it into cryptic messages which were transmitted around London and the world by radio and internet. This project was indebted to
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...
's notions of viral media and to
Nicolas Abraham and
Maria Torok's notions of the "crypt", a space both of burial and encryption. The art-piece Black Box, originally displayed in Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in 2008, also involved constant radio transmissions. McCarthy has insisted that radio technology can be regarded as a metaphor for writing, comparing T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" to a radio programme.
Awards and honours
* 2008
Believer Book Award Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020) ...
for ''Remainder''.
* 2010
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
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(shortlist)
* 2013
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
* 2015
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
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(shortlist)
Bibliography
Fiction
*''Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art'' (London: Vargas Organization, 2002), .
*''Calling All Agents'' (London: Vargas Organization, 2003), .
*''
Remainder
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'' (Paris: Metronome Press, 2005), ; (London: Alma Books, 2006), ; (New York, NY: Vintage, 2007), .
*''Men in Space'' (London: Alma Books, 2007), .
*
''C'' (London: Vintage, 2010), .
*''
Satin Island'' (New York: Knopf, 2015), .
*''
The Making of Incarnation'' (New York: Knopf, 2021)
Non-fiction
*''Tintin and the Secret of Literature'' (London: Granta, 2006), ; (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2008), .
* ''Transmission and the Individual Remix'': (Vintage, 2012)
*
[Online version is titled "The best, if worst-paid, job I ever had".]
*''Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays'' (New York: New York Review Books, 2017),
*Tom McCarthy et al., ''The Death of the Artist'' (New York:
Cabinet Books, 2019).
ISBN
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An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition an ...
9781932698893,
1932698892
References
External links
Radio, Archaeology, Literature: Tom Vandeputte in Conversation with Tom McCarthy Retrieved 2013-02-10
Interview, ''Untitled Books'' Retrieved 2010-12-28
"My desktop"in ''The Guardian''
SurplusMatter.com McCarthy resource site Retrieved 2010-12-28
Vintage, McCarthy's US publisher. Works detail.Retrieved 2010-12-28
Charlie Kaufman on Remainder and Synecdoche, NY Retrieved 2010-12-28
from InDigest Magazine. Retrieved 2010-12-28
Interview with McCarthyon ''The Marketplace of Ideas'' (Audio, 35 mins). Retrieved 2010-12-28
Zadie_Smith:_"Two_Paths_for_the_Novel"._Essay_on_''Remainder''._20_November_2008_''The_New_York_Review_of_Books''.html" ;"title="The New York Review of Books">Zadie Smith: "Two Paths for the Novel". Essay on ''Remainder''. 20 November 2008 ''The New York Review of Books
''">The New York Review of Books">Zadie Smith: "Two Paths for the Novel". Essay on ''Remainder''. 20 November 2008 ''The New York Review of Books
'' Retrieved 2010-12-28
Interview ''Dossier Journal''.Retrieved 2010-12-28
Reading from his novel ''C''9 September 2010 ''Guardian''. (Audio, 17 mis). Retrieved 2010-12-28
2015 ''Bomb Magazine'' interview of Tom McCarthy by Frederic Tuten* Wrethed J. “The Phenomenology of Representation, Ritual, and the Sacred in Tom McCarthy's Remainder”. Anthropoetics, XXIII, no. 1 Fall 2017. Available at: http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2301/2301wrethed/
* Wrethed J. “ʻWhere danger is, there rescue growsʼ: Technology, Time, and Dromology in Tom McCarthy's C”. C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 5(3) 2017, p. 3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/c21.26
* Wrethed J. “The Oil-Flower Unfurling Its Petals: The Phenomenological Aesthetics of Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island”. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, Vol. 9, Nr. 1, 2022. https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1988/
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