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Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy

is a British novelist and artist based in London. McCarthy operates as »General Secretary« of a semi-fictitious organisation called the »International Necronautical Society« (INS). He also published a number of essays and short stories. With his debut novel Remainder (8 ½ Millionen) he was awarded the Believer Book Award in 2008. His novels C (2010) und Satin Island (2015) were shortlisted for the Men's Booker Prize.

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Bibliography
  • English
  • 2019
  • 2016
  • 2011
    C, New York, Vintage
  • 2007
    Men in Space, London, Alma Books Ltd
  • 2006
    Tintin and the Secret of Literature, London, Granta Books
  • 2005
    Remainder, Paris (London 2007), Metronome Press
  • 2002
    Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art: General Secretary‘s Report to the International Necronautical Society, London, Vargas Organization
  • German
  • 2010
    Tim & Struppi und das Geheimnis der Literatur, Berlin, Blumenbar
  • contemporary literature
  • fiction
  • conversation
  • Modernism
  • poetics
  • memory
  • literature
  • time
  • practice
  • temporality
  • realism
  • literary studies
  • history of literature
  • re-enactment