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Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.)
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Monograph
Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), Elena Vogman (ed.)
The Cube and the Face
Anthology
Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen
Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)
Noch einmal anders
Anthology
Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten
Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)
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Liliana Gómez (ed.)
Performing Human Rights
Tom McCarthy
Ecstasy of inauthenticity
The question of authenticity and I go back some way; we’re old sparring partners – frenemies. It’s been a fraught relationship, shot through with paradox and misconstruing. My first novel, Remainder, does turn around its protagonist’s obsession with becoming ‘real’, inhabiting his era or his city, building, skin, movements and gestures in a ‘first-hand’ or ‘authentic’ way, an obsession which he carries to the point of murder. Yet the pleasure of seeing this book receiving glowing press reviews that praised it for its ‘originality’ and ‘true’-ness was tinged with an awareness of something being odd or ‘off’, since Remainder is in fact the most un-original of novels, a novel about non-originality and simulacra that’s quite blatantly composed of set tropes and constructed situations reprised and, only slightly modified, replayed from sources ranging from Ballard’s Crash and Beckett’s Godot back to Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (Uncle Toby’s domestic re-stagings of battle terrains)...