Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer

by Tom McCarthy

Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the passage of time characterized by starts and stops and suspended states of waiting. Acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy brings out a temporal pattern, a subliminal convention of a certain fringe of modernism that works both in and against the canon of modernist literature in works by Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Maurice Blanchot, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037345896
• ISBN13: 9783037345894
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Diaphanes
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 7.4"