Re-run and Re-read Tom McCarthy’s Remainder as an Archeology of the Present

A. Violi
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Hailed by critics as breaking paths for the direction of British fiction, Tom McCarthy’s novel Remainder (2005) has been described as a way of re-thinking literature in terms of intermedial spaces, be they installations, performance artworks or a ‘remix’ of writing and film. The newness of Remainder seems to hinge on its imitation of a contemporary mediascape saturated with technical images and simulacra, in which reality is totally metamorphosed into a filmic phantasmagoria that novel writing is striving to mimic. Following McCarthy’s eschewing of the rhetoric of the ‘new’, this essay discusses the practice of re-enactment described in Remainder as a way digging up images from the past to read the myth of postmodern hyperreality against its grain. McCarthy’s ‘archeology of the present’ takes the concern with mediation and visual culture back to the unfinished business of modernism and its encounter with cinematic technology, reproposing the materialist aesthetics of embodiment that emerged from the conversation among literature, film and medicine in writers such as Joyce or T.S. Eliot, down to Samuel Beckett.
重读和重读汤姆·麦卡锡的《余部》,把它当作当代考古学
评论家们称赞汤姆·麦卡锡的小说《剩余》(2005)为英国小说的方向开辟了道路,它被描述为从中间空间的角度重新思考文学的一种方式,无论是装置、行为艺术作品还是写作和电影的“混合”。《剩余》的新颖性似乎取决于它对充斥着技术图像和拟像的当代媒体景观的模仿,在这种媒介景观中,现实完全变成了小说写作努力模仿的电影般的幻景。继麦卡锡对“新”修辞的回避之后,本文讨论了《剩余》中描述的再现实践,作为一种从过去挖掘图像的方式,来阅读后现代超现实的神话。麦卡锡的“当代考古学”将对调解和视觉文化的关注带回到现代主义未完成的事业及其与电影技术的相遇,重新提出了从文学,电影和医学之间的对话中出现的唯物主义美学,如乔伊斯或T.S.艾略特,直到塞缪尔贝克特。
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