RSSTom McCarthy is doing two ‘in-conversation-withs’ about his new novel C this month.
The first one is on 6 September 2010 at the LRB shop with critic and novelist Lee Rourke:
Tom McCarthy in conversation with Lee Rourke
Monday 6 September at 7.00 p.m.
Tom McCarthy’s first novel Remainder was originally published by a small Paris-based art press before being picked up by Vintage in the US and Alma Books in the UK and becoming both a cult bestseller and a great critical success. He now joins Cape for C, a novel about technology, sex and death that takes us from the battlefields of the Great War to the London of the 1920s and the necropolises of Ancient Egypt, and which has just been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Tom McCarthy will be reading from the novel, and discussing it with critic and writer Lee Rourke whose first novel The Canal has just been published by Melville House.
The second event is on the 27th September at the Southbank Centre “with cricket-loving ne’er-do-well and general man-about-town” Nicholas Lezard:
27 September 2010, 7:45pm
Tom McCarthy’s new novel C charts the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man in thrall to the electric modernity of the early 20th century. Set amidst a weird world of transmissions, and of cryptic and poetic signals, the novel explores Carraefax’s morbid obsession with technology — an obsession which eventually obliterates him. Tom McCarthy is the author of Remainder and Men in Space. He is also an artist and the creator of the International Necronautical Society. He discusses his work and then takes questions from the audience.
‘One of the great English novels of the past ten years.’ (Zadie Smith on Remainder, New York Review of Books)