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050 00 $aPR6113.C369$bA6 2017
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100 1 $aMcCarthy, Tom,$d1969 May 22-$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 10 $aTypewriters, bombs, jellyfish :$bessays /$cTom McCarthy.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c[2017]
300 $a276 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as Ulysses (how do you write after it?), Tristram Shandy, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi's darkly beautiful Cain's Book. The longer "Recessional" examines the place of time in writing--how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time--while the startling "Nothing Will Have Taken Place" moves from Mallarme and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence--among them the artist Ed Ruscha's Royal Road Test, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination--and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world?"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 00 $tIntroduction: the coming goo --$tMeteomedia, or why London's weather is in the middle of everything --$tWhy Ulysses matters --$tKool thing, or why I want to fuck Patty Hearst --$tGet real, or what jellyfish have to tell us about literature --$tTristram Shandy: on balls and planes --$tRecessional, or the time of the hammer --$tBlurring the sublime: on Gerhard Richter --$tThe prosthetic imagination of David Lynch --$tFrom feedback to reflux: Kafka's cybernetics of revolt --$tThe geometry of the pressant --$tStabbing the olive : Jean-Philippe Toussaint --$tOn Dodgem jockeys --$tNothing will have taken place except the place --$tSemiconnected thoughts on Michel de Certeau, on Kawara, fly fishing, and various other things --$tKathy Acker's infidel heteroglossia.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General.$2bisacsh
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMcCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22- author.$tTypewriters, bombs, jellyfish$dNew York : New York Review Books, 2017$z9781681370873$w(DLC) 2017020545
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