Those people who recommended Remainder to me said that one of the best things about the book is that it sticks around in your breadpan long after you’ve finished reading it, that it’s one of those books that quietly urge you to reread after you’re done. I started out as a McCarthy unbeliever. I finished as a McCarthy convert.
Bookmunch revisits Remainder.
Ben Marcus quotes Tom McCarthy in HTML Giant.
An excerpt from Remainder features in an exhibition entitled Translated By currently running at the AA Gallery in London.
A Russian review of Remainder in Kommersant.
Vancouver artist Lorna Brown’s art piece based on Tom McCarthy’s Remainder.
Roderik Six reviews the Dutch translation of Remainder on cultural website Cutting Edge.
Before seeing it I’d heard that it involved Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character staging an enormous “theatre event”, filling simulated rooms with actors simulating actions and this sounded shockingly like a conceit lifted straight from Tom McCarthy’s radical and brilliant novel Remainder. The real shock of watching the film, however, had nothing to do with such perceived borrowing — in its doublings, replications and simulacra the film is full of tropes seemingly pilfered from postmodern novels. What was really startling was that the presentation of those ideas was on a greater and more complex scale than these (apparent) literary antecedents.
Hermione Hoby on Charlie Kaufman’s Synechdoche, New York.
Italian reviews of Remainder (Déjà-vu in Italian).
In English, it’s called Remainder: there’s always an extra — something too much. (Laughs.) So there’s always this material extra and, in a way, it is an allegory of art. No matter with how much craft we simulate the world, the world itself will be too much.
Tom McCarthy interviewed on Radio Eins during his German tour.
Tom McCarthy will be in Berlin for the launch of 8 1/2 Millionen (Remainder) on Saturday 14 March 2009 at Volksbühne (9 pm).
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